Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Add lines to `git log --graph` to separate connected regions

From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date: Apr 7, 2024, 08:34 UTC
Message-ID: <1e5dfc946c38809f159776f41e23c7c6@manjaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACXAH50KHrnmc1At_DHX5O=BGuGT_pe9n5nGLSJYt7fXTbe_Yg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Quang,

On 2024-04-07 08:40, Quang Lê Duy wrote:

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> On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 12:37 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 
> wrote:
>> True.  But because we are doing graph, shouldn't we be able to do
>> better?  For example, you can draw the two lineage of histories
>> on different columns and ...
>> 
>>        * a2
>>        * a1
>>      * b2
>>      * b1
>> 
>> ... that way, you do not need to lose one line of precious vertical
>> screen real estate.
> 
> I think horizontal screen real estate is even more precious than the 
> vertical
> one, since one usually doesn't scroll their terminal horizontally. And 
> then it
> would probably be a way more complicated implementation.

These days, very few computer screens aren't in widescreen format, so there's inevitably less vertical screen space available than the horizontal space.