Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: monotone-viz oddities again?

[Olivier Andrieu]

 Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker [Wednesday 26 October 2005] :
 >
 > In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:53:17 +0200, Olivier 
 > Andrieu <address@hidden> said:
 > 
 > oliv__a>  Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker [Wednesday 26 October 2005] :
 > oliv__a>  >
 > oliv__a>  > richard> I just noticed that I'm currently getting a
 > oliv__a>  > richard> disconnected graph in monotone-viz.  Am I alone
 > oliv__a>  > richard> in this?  Olivier, can you remind me how to
 > oliv__a>  > richard> generate some debugging output for you?
 > oliv__a> 
 > oliv__a> Yes I've noticed this. Actually it's because the graph is no
 > oliv__a> more disconnected. Someone did a commit&merge on a rather old
 > oliv__a> revision (from august) which had effect on reconnecting what
 > oliv__a> was previously two components. I'm not sure what I could do
 > oliv__a> to "fix" the layout.
 > 
 > OK, so if understand correctly, checking for other possible paths
 > is only done when there's a disconnection in the graph, correct?

Yes.

 > I understand why you don't do that for all nodes, as I can imagine
 > the time spent would not make it worth it.  However, here's an
 > idea: regard apparent leaves as a possible disconnection, and check
 > if monotone really regards them as leaves.  If not, they should be
 > treated as a graph disconnection.

Hmm ok, I'll try that.

 > I also noticed that the current real leaf doesn't stay at the
 > bottom for the moment (because of the disconnected behavior).
 > While I like the more compact display, in the current situation,
 > it's really confusing to have the real leaf somewhere in the middle
 > of the graph...

Monotone-viz puts leaves at the bottom of the graph. If it's in the
middle, that's probably because there is a propagate from this
revision to another branch.

-- 
   Olivier