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Re: how to make gitk to use specified history information

From
LYLiu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2009, 08:38 UTC
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<4B010F91.5010208@gmail.com>
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Eric Raible wrote:
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> Liu Yubao <yubao.liu <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I want to obtain an outline of history information, for example:
>>
>>   a - b - c - d - h -i -j
>>    \         /
>>     e- f - g
>>
>> I simplify the graph like this:
>>
>>   a - c - d - j
>>     \    /
>>       g
> 
> "gitk --simplify-by-decoration"?
> 
> - Eric
> 

Thanks, but that gets "a - g - j" which isn't what I want. (g and j are heads of two branches).

The command sequence to produce that full revision graph:

#!/bin/bash d=/tmp/t$$ rm -rf $d && mkdir $d && cd $d || exit 1

doit () {
  for s in $@; do
    echo $s >> a.txt 
    git add a.txt
    git commit -q -m $s
  done
}

git init doit a b c git checkout -b t HEAD~2 doit e f g git checkout master git merge t doit d h i j

gitk &
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  4. dirty code to get an outline of commit history with gitk [Was: how to make gitk to use specified history information]Liu Yubao, Nov 16, 2009

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