Re: [FRIAM] 'Playing' Versioned Source Repositories

2015-07-18 Thread Russell Standish
Try gource. On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 08:52:33PM -0600, Arlo Barnes wrote: > So Etherpad (that collaborative editing web-app that > was closed source, got real popular at one point, closed shop, was cloned > into 'PiratePad', then the original acquired and open-sourced by Apa

Re: [FRIAM] 'Playing' Versioned Source Repositories

2015-07-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
Magit for Emacs should come close to this. It can control git to apply patch sets, e.g. in time order. Of course, most developers will commit working code changes, not all the details of their edits. The deltas will be batch edits, not keystroke by keystroke, or line by line. But it wil

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] 'Playing' Versioned Source Repositories

2015-07-18 Thread Roger Critchlow
Look at gitk, unless you're actually looking for an animation of the tree of files and directories over time. Though tk might be a good choice for doing that, too, if Ben Bederson's Pad++ is still working. -- rec -- On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote: > So Etherpad

[FRIAM] 'Playing' Versioned Source Repositories

2015-07-18 Thread Arlo Barnes
So Etherpad (that collaborative editing web-app that was closed source, got real popular at one point, closed shop, was cloned into 'PiratePad', then the original acquired and open-sourced by Apache) has this feature called 'Timeslider', which allows one to watch the progress

Re: [FRIAM] How Text Editing is like Riding a Bike, was: speculative Q

2015-07-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
Steve writes: "Really, text editing is just like riding a bike... you don't forget what that first "real bike" feels like, and it IS fun to wipe the dust off of it and cruise down the boardwalk ogling the young and the reckless with their toned tans, but from one old fart to the rest of you, do

[FRIAM] How Text Editing is like Riding a Bike, was: speculative Q

2015-07-18 Thread Steve Smith
Text Editing Nostagia Conflated with Bicycle Riding: I learned to ride on paper tape and punch cards... kind of like one of those toddler's early "walker" toys that looked like a flying saucer maybe? It had bumpers all around, a built in rattle, didn't move too fast, and the sling-like seat w

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

2015-07-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
"But the point I was trying to make with those 3 articles still stands: that people who join communities for community's sake are not necessarily only drags on, disrupters of the system. They provide something like a dampening baffle that traps and eliminates the noise of the extremists, the p

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

2015-07-18 Thread glen
On 07/17/2015 11:22 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > My claim is that free software developers, and GPL developers in particular, > have a preference for exploring this broader type of connectivity, and are > especially interested in the frustration of the interconnections amongst the > global bits t

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

2015-07-18 Thread glen
On 07/17/2015 09:44 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > I do know about emacs. It survives, because it is bloody good at being > a text editor, particular for programming. I suppose vi is the same - > I've seen some people make vi stand up and sing, but for me, its > behaviour when interacting with vt100