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Re: Compact view of history in gitk

From
Yakup Akbay <yakbay@ubicom.com>
Date
Sep 29, 2009, 12:44 UTC
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<4AC20123.20809@ubicom.com>
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Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> Yakup Akbay schrieb:
>   
>> Think of the gitk version of the history below:
>>
>>                  E-*-*-*-F
>>                 /
>> A-*-*-*-*-*-*-B-C-*-*-*-D
>>               \
>>                G-*-*-H-*-*-*-I
>>                       \
>>                        J-*-*-*-*-*-K
>>
>>
>> I want an output like this:
>>
>>        E-~-F
>>       /
>> A-~-B-C-~-D
>>     \
>>      G-~-H-~-I
>>           \
>>            J-~-K
>>
>> Is there an option in gitk (or in any other tool) to get such a view?
>>     
>
> I think, --simplify-by-decoration comes close, even though it may not be
> 100% what you describe.
>
> -- Hannes
>   
Thanks Hannes, this is exactly what I need!
Yakup
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