StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs • Hacker News Board

Re: StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs

#21

Post by jaredmcateer » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 1:40 PM UTC

codecurve wrote: post #20

From now, every time I create a new repo, the first commit message is going to be "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away".

Unfortunately it seem to scroll from newest to oldest

Re: StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs

#22

Post by tterrace » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 1:42 PM UTC

This is very cool. I also just noticed a neat quirk - if you switch tabs (I'm on chrome) the animations pause but the timer to show the text keeps ticking. So all the text bunches up at the bottom until you switch back at which point the text blob starts to fade out all together.

The page visibility api: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-page-visibility-20110602/ might be able to help with that.

Re: StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs

#23

Post by jaredmcateer » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 1:47 PM UTC

kaoD wrote: post #5

masukomi wrote: post #4

They don't seem to actually get any smaller (faux perspective) as they scroll up, they just scroll up and fade out... :/

I definitely see the letters getting smaller. Chrome Stable here.

Chrome Version 27.0.1453.12 dev Ubuntu 12.04 also not seeing the effect, though I did on my windows machine (running latest stable)

Re: StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs

#24

Post by artemave » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 1:49 PM UTC

tterrace wrote: post #22

This is very cool. I also just noticed a neat quirk - if you switch tabs (I'm on chrome) the animations pause but the timer to show the text keeps ticking. So all the text bunches up at the bottom until you switch back at which point the text blob starts to fade out all together. The page visibility api: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-page-visibility-20110602/ might be able to help with that.

Nice one. Thanks!

Re: StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs

#25

Post by artemave » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 2:02 PM UTC

looki wrote: post #2

Neat, but shouldn't it show the commits first to last?

It is a git log viewer. So it follows `git log` behaviour.

Re: StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs

#26

Post by alan_cx » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 2:04 PM UTC

I was hoping I could bung in any url and see the text scrolling, like a BBC.co.uk news item, or something. Was looking forward to reading the news in that format. Especially with the music. It kinda seemed appropriate for a certain huge UK story...

Re: StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs

#27

Post by graywh » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 2:05 PM UTC

I don't like how it joins the summary line and the explanatory text with just a space. I'd recommend preserving blank lines in the commit message as line breaks.

Re: StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs

#28

Post by autotravis » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 2:06 PM UTC

This is awesome! Is the entry box for the repo supposed to go away once it finds it? It stayed there, covering the text in Chrome 27 dev on Arch... It would be cool if it disappeared.