From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:32:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Colorization of log --graph
Message-ID: <200903192032.42117.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <279b37b20903181029q7a526168y360874a48783d1dc@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Raible, 18.03.2009:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> wrote:
> > Gitk paints lines of development (lineal history without merges nor
> > forks) with the same color.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Santi
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.  I suppose I realized that but it just
> doesn't seem that profound.
> Don't get me wrong - I like gitk and still prefer it to any of the alternatives.
> But its of color seems more flashy than useful to me.

If scrolling through a history with many branches (so many parallel
lines) like git.git, colors help you to follow a particular line.

I don't find it easy to follow a line in a PCB, where you normally don't
have colors :)

Markus