Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space

Before opening the link I was thinking this was going to be a cool feature that lets you scroll through older revisions of a file in git. This, paired with a git blame GUI would be awesome.

A minority report for git repos

Sweet feature regardless :)

Re: Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space

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Post by HammondSmoking » Sat, Mar 04, 2017, 9:55 PM UTC

vmarsy wrote: post #4

Is that doing Ctrl+Z , Ctrl+Y in the background? Before opening the link I was thinking this was going to be a cool feature that lets you scroll through older revisions of a file in git. This, paired with a git blame GUI would be awesome. A minority report for git repos Sweet feature regardless :)

You can easily do that using magit in emacs [1].

[1] https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Blaming.html

Re: Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 04, 2017, 10:12 PM UTC

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Re: Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space

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Post by anakron » Sat, Mar 04, 2017, 10:31 PM UTC

Relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/1806/ And don't forget the alt text!

Re: Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space

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Post by tiglionabbit » Sat, Mar 04, 2017, 10:35 PM UTC

vmarsy wrote: post #4

Is that doing Ctrl+Z , Ctrl+Y in the background? Before opening the link I was thinking this was going to be a cool feature that lets you scroll through older revisions of a file in git. This, paired with a git blame GUI would be awesome. A minority report for git repos Sweet feature regardless :)

That was my second thought. My first thought was, doesn't Time Machine already exist?

Re: Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space

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Post by Cyphase » Sat, Mar 04, 2017, 10:36 PM UTC

anakron wrote: post #7

Relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/1806/ And don't forget the alt text!

Inspiring* xkcd. :)

I had a feeling someone was going to implement this when I saw xkcd yesterday.

Re: Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space

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Post by notamy » Sat, Mar 04, 2017, 10:38 PM UTC

vmarsy wrote: post #4

Is that doing Ctrl+Z , Ctrl+Y in the background? Before opening the link I was thinking this was going to be a cool feature that lets you scroll through older revisions of a file in git. This, paired with a git blame GUI would be awesome. A minority report for git repos Sweet feature regardless :)

Scrolling through a file's git history like that would be pretty freaking awesome.