Sliding window api

[peso]

I'm working on integrating git-graph into gitui. One of the issues I'm trying to deal with is that git-graph wants to load the full repository. This conflicts with gitui's goal to be always responsive. Gitui has a crate asyncgit to allow gradual loading of commits while the user is using the application.

My current workaround is to limit the number of commits to those visible and reload when the user scrolls. This does not have a good performance.

It would be nice if git-graph could have an api that allowed a small range of commits in memory, a window that could be moved back and forth across the repository. In other words, the possibility to gradually add more commits to either end of the window.

[peso]

I'm willing to provide patches to git-graph if I can get a hint on how to do this.

[mlange-42]

@peso Thank you for your interest! The moving window approach may or may not work with git-graph's branch layout algorithm. Feel free to make PRs (if this is what you mean by patches).

However, please be aware that I will probably not spend much time in the development of git-graph anymore (which is a shame given how popular and unique it is).