From: Andreas Ericsson Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 07:42:34 GMT Subject: Re: How to restrict gitk to show only branch/merge commits? Message-ID: <4A013F6A.5010003@op5.se> In-Reply-To: <20090506072053.GL15420@raven.wolf.lan> Josef Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > I would like gitk to show me only the heads, branch-points and > merge-points of branches. > > For example, given a history like this: > > d...e--F--g...h--H > / \ > a1--a2...an--b--C N--o...p--P > \ / > i...j--K--l...m--M > > I would like to see only > > - a1 because it has no parent > - C,F,K because they are reachable from multiple heads > - N because it has multiple parents > - H,M,P because they are heads > > Ideally, there would be a possibility to add some "context" to the > list of commits to be shown: with $context==1, all the commits shown > in the above history would be shown, but the commits indicated by > the triple-dots would be omitted. > > The reason is that I have some repositories with several really long > linear history. It is hard to get a global overview about the branch > history if you have to scroll constantly. > > Is something like that possible with gitk? Not today, no. I'm not sure how hard it would be to add, and as I'm a tcl-analphabet the chances of successfully implementing it marginally increases if I don't work on it. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Register now for Nordic Meet on Nagios, June 3-4 in Stockholm http://nordicmeetonnagios.op5.org/ Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.