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git-rev-list feature request

From
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date
Mar 10, 2006, 01:07 UTC
Message-ID
<17424.53563.622642.738307@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Hi,

I'd like to implement a new features in gitk to enable it to show the relationship of a given commit to the tags and other references. What I would like is for git-rev-list to be able to output a dense graph containing only one or more specified commits plus all the commits that have a reference (i.e. a file under $GIT_DIR/refs that contains their SHA1 ID), plus the merges that are needed to complete the graph.

It would be nice also to be able to combine that with the existing ability to output a dense graph containing the commits that modify a specified set of files or directories.

In other words, I would like to be able to select any combination of (a) some explicitly specified commits (b) commits that have a reference (c) commits that affect specified files or directories

and have git-rev-list output a graph that shows the relationship of those commits.

Possible?

Thanks, Paul.

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