From: Dragan Simic Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 08:34:19 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Add lines to `git log --graph` to separate connected regions Message-ID: <1e5dfc946c38809f159776f41e23c7c6@manjaro.org> In-Reply-To: Hello Quang, On 2024-04-07 08:40, Quang Lê Duy wrote: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 12:37 PM Junio C Hamano > 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.