Show HN: GitPlex – A new Git repo management server with code review
I don't care much about code <i>review</i>, but it's a close enough attractor to the space of <i>code reading</i> that it seems to be draining attention. So let me hijack this topic and post a request for product (I'd write it myself, but priorities... adult life sucks hard).<p>--<p>I dream of a tool that facilitates code <i>reading</i> and <i>exploration</i>. It has some similar features with code review tools, namely:<p>- integration with version control systems<p>- basic semantic search/navigation<p>- looks clean<p>- not meant to be for writing code<p>But my dream tool also has following features I haven't seen implemented in any code review tool (or anywhere):<p>- annotations - not just "comments", but the ability to tag lines, to strike them out, highlight, color, scribble on them, etc. - basically anything you'd do with a printout of a code<p>- easy way to review history of a single file (with annotations)<p>- ability to easily bookmark areas / pieces of code and use those bookmarks in comments / annotations<p>- ability for viewing structural diagrams of the codebase<p>- full blown semantic search - who calls, calls who, etc.<p>- project-structure-oriented, not repository-history/commit-oriented<p>Basically, I'd love a tool not for collaboration, but for individual work - a tool that would facilitate exploring and familiarizing yourself with big codebases, as well as empower one when the time comes to do bigger refactorings.<p>Would be doubly useful if I could use it on a tablet, so that I could get up from in front of my computer to go and think about the changes I'm about to make (right now, I end up actually printing code if I have to refactor something very messy).