feat: manual playback controls

[petdomaa100]

Really cool project!

I would love to use this for reviewing commits made by others. Seeing changes incrementally is much better than looking at a huge diff.

But for this, I would need manual playback controls. Perhaps pressing space or arrow keys to see the next change?

Bidirectional controls would be ideal, but just being able to step forward with a button would unlock a lot of practical value.

[linear]

E-690

[unhappychoice]

Thank you for the kind words and the feature suggestion!

I appreciate the idea of manual playback controls - it would indeed be useful for code review scenarios. However, gitlogue wasn't originally designed as a full-fledged code review tool, but rather as a visualization tool to show how code evolved over time.

While I can see the value in this feature, I'm not planning to implement it in the near future, as it would shift the focus of the project toward interactive review functionality.

That said, I'll keep this issue open as a future enhancement request. If there's significant interest from the community, I may reconsider the priority. Contributions are also welcome if anyone wants to take this on!

Thanks again for your interest in the project.

[petdomaa100]

Makes sense, thanks for the quick reply. I unfortunately don't speak Rust so I can't contribute at the moment.

[MohammadMD1383]

+1 (this feature is not only a code-review feature but can be a teaching mechanism, so students can pause, review, go back/forward to better understand the project,

we can move our coding courses to git repositories this way)

and also thanks for this very very nice tool!

[MohammadMD1383]

I would be happy if I could contribute to this nice project but I have no time and also I don't code in Rust :)

[bfmags]

Amazing project!

+1 it would be super useful to pause and control playback forwards/backwards.

[roxchgt]

While I can see the value in this feature, I'm not planning to implement it in the near future, as it would shift the focus of the project toward interactive review functionality.

Thanks @unhappychoice for the very cool tool. This is gonna be a big hit! Regarding this feature request, as others have also suggested, the purpose of it doesn't matter. Even for teaching, presentation and also understanding more complex changes alone different flow of animation would be very helpful. Just a pause/play (maybe with the space bar) and something like 'go 10 frames or 2 steps back and replay' could be enough. Eventually an option for skipping some less interesting commits could be the cherry on the cake. A basic interactiveness in the animation flow would do a lot!

[kylesnowschwartz]

I'll add my voice to the chorus - interactive playback would turn this from a 'just a screensaver' into a truly useful tool. Please consider adding this feature, or forking the project and building a more utility-focused version for review/learning.

[zlietapki]

Playback control would be awesome