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Re: Any objectsions to enhancing git-log to show tags/branch heads?

From
PBPeter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 17, 2007, 05:08 UTC
Message-ID
<20070417050808.GC29569@xp.machine.xx>
In-Reply-To
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0704161958470.6021@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:01:29PM +0100, Julian Phillips wrote:
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>  On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Peter Baumann wrote:
> 
> >
> > master
> > | next			commit comment for next
> > o  |		commit comment for master~1
> > |  o			commit comment for next~1
> > o  |	[ ... guess whats next :-)		you get the idea ...]
> > |  o
> > |  |
> > o /
> > |
> >
> > tig comes near it, but it only linerarises the branches, so you can't see
> > where there was a mergepoint/fork. I'd really like these visuallization of
> > the commit graph in some of the text viewers. I normally don't care about
> > the _full_ commit text, only if I visually understand what's happening I'm
> > looking at the individual commits and the patches.
> 
>  If you turn on the revision graph visualisation (press 'g' whil in main 
>  view) then tig will show merges and forks ... looks a little like your 
>  diagram above in fact.
> 
>  -- 
>  Julian
> 
Nice. I didn't now of this feature.
Peter
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Message 9 of 15 in “Any objectsions to enhancing git-log to show tags/branch heads?”
  1. Theodore Ts'oApr 16, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2007
  3. Theodore TsoApr 16, 2007
  4. Peter BaumannApr 16, 2007
  5. J. Bruce FieldsApr 16, 2007
  6. Peter BaumannApr 17, 2007
  7. J. Bruce FieldsApr 17, 2007
  8. Julian PhillipsApr 16, 2007
  9. Peter BaumannApr 17, 2007
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2007
  11. Theodore TsoApr 17, 2007
  12. Jakub NarebskiApr 17, 2007
  13. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2007
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2007
  15. Theodore TsoApr 17, 2007

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