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Re: qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Nov 27, 2009, 15:15 UTC
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Chris.Cheney venit, vidit, dixit 26.11.2009 22:54:
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> My commit graph has a number of forks (I can't use the word "branches" 
> here) that are referenced only by a tag. Whereas gitk --all displays this 
> graph including those forks, qgit does not display those forks - I don't 
> see a way to make it do so, other than by adding branches to those tagged 
> commits. 
> 
> Have I overlooked something?
>

qgit --all does it for me. It may not be the newest qgit, though. I use tags like that to mark a version of a topic branch before rebasing, so that on old version won't be gc'ed away and the branch name space is not too crowded. Poor man's topgit, so to say. I guess it's a common use case.

Michael
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