From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:08:54 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk layout bug
Message-ID: <20080121190854.GA5263@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <18324.27370.96611.769276@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras, Mon, Jan 21, 2008 10:50:34 +0100:
> I'd be interested to know if you can trigger it with the "dev" branch
> of gitk, too.  The dev branch doesn't use --topo-order or
> --date-order, but instead does the topological sort itself, so the
> cold-cache case is a lot faster (and the hot-cache case goes just as
> fast as before).  And because I can now reorder the commits, I can put
> each open-circle commit just after the last merge that has it as a
> parent, which ends up looking much nicer too.

It is better, but sometimes the layout seem to be a bit too
"aggressively cleaned up": there are just merges and arrows pointing
in all directions but very few of real information.