From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: tog: todo item #2 respond to key presses while "loading..."
To: Mark Jamsek <mark@jamsek.com>
Cc: Game of Trees <gameoftrees@openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:39:28 +0200

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 11:51:32PM +1000, Mark Jamsek wrote:
> I thought I'd have a quick look at this before zzz but I'm not sure it
> can be so simple so I'm looking for further testing.
> 
> I've been playing with this in src.git for a bit and it appears to work
> as you'd expect: you can open other views, navigate the log, and even
> quit tog while all ~221k commits are loading. Once they're all loaded,
> if you {are in,return to} the log view, the last commit is selected.
> 
> This was a great suggestion btw, it's a huge boon for large repos!

Yes, this seems to work fine during initial testing. Searching in the
log view itself seems to work fine as well, while commits are loading.

My main worry would be crashes due to bugs in the threading.
Such bugs will only be discovered during regular usage, so we could go
ahead with this patch and see what happens.