From: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:52:38 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk screenshots of complex history
Message-ID: <20070727135238.GW21692@lavos.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070727041300.GD20052@spearce.org>

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 12:13:01AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> I've mentioned both on list and on #git that one of my production
> repositories has a few weird points in time.  Some folks have asked
> to see at least screenshots of the line part of the gitk output,
> as apparently they've never seen ugly history in Git.  Lucky them.
> 
> The images are rather large so I have posted them on my website
> with a bit longer explanation of each:
> 
>   http://www.spearce.org/2007/07/difficult-gitk-graphs.html
 
> OK, no more screenshots from *that* repository!  I don't ever want
> to run `gitk --all` there again.  Ever.

Were those graphs generated with --topo-order (the default) or
--date-order?  I've found complex history usually looks a lot more
manageable with --date-order.  Certainly the Git history is a LOT less
wide with --all --date-order than --all.

Does this help your situation as well?

-bcd