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Re: Compact view of history in gitk

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DSDirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date
Sep 30, 2009, 18:41 UTC
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Am 29.09.2009 17:21 schrieb Martin Langhoff:
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> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>> I think, --simplify-by-decoration comes close, even though it may not be
>> 100% what you describe.
> 
> That is awesome.
> 
> Awesomer would be teaching gitk to expand (un-simplify) parts of it.
> Probably a pig of a project to do though :-/
> 
> 
> 
> m

I'm proud to tell that one might also use gitk's dialog 'View -> Edit view... (F4)' and then activate the 'Simple history' checkbox. :-)

Gitk knows about that since Git v1.6.4-rc0.
However, it doesn't do the awesomer part.
Dirk
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  1. Yakup AkbaySep 29, 2009
  2. Johannes SixtSep 29, 2009
  3. Yakup AkbaySep 29, 2009
  4. Martin LanghoffSep 29, 2009
  5. Dirk SüsserottSep 30, 2009

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