Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

From: Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
Date: Jul 16, 2008, 20:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20080716202321.GA30485@cuci.nl>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130807161053w24a21d7bh1fa800a714ce75db@mail.gmail.com>

Avery Pennarun wrote:

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>Also, inevitably, someone will ask "what happened to those simple svn
>revision numbers?" or "when I do a merge, why are the patches from
>branch #1 interspersed with the ones from branch #2 in git log?"  The
>answers are "look at gitk to see the real merge history, that's way
>more powerful than svn, and check out git-bisect!" and "use git log
>--topo-order" respectively, but those are pretty nontrivial answers
>too.

Try --first-parent, it simplifies the history.

-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not re-curse!

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