Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add history graph API

From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Apr 7, 2008, 07:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20080407072629.GA5168@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <1207507332-1866-1-git-send-email-adam@adamsimpkins.net>

Adam Simpkins kirjoitti (6.4.2008 klo 11.42):

> [...] graphing API [...] is more similar to gitk's graph, which many
> people are already familiar with. It also doesn't require a terminal
> with Unicode support.

As I've spent some time in testing the --graph functionality I'm spamming my discoveries here.

When limiting the log output to a subdirectory or to a file the graph becomes quite hard to understand. Probably the easiest way to demonstrate my point is to compare side by side (for example)

  git log --graph --pretty=oneline -- Documentation/
 
and

  gitk -- Documentation/

in the Git repository. gitk draws lines between commits even when they are not in direct parent-child relationship (i.e. there is longer series of commits between them). With log --graph it's hard to tell which development line some commits come from.

The whole-repository log graphs seem to work nicely though.