From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 01:39:42 GMT
Subject: Re: bug in "git log --graph" at the tail end?
Message-ID: <7vk5hkpjj5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080524010555.GA5385@adamsimpkins.net>

Adam Simpkins <adam@adamsimpkins.net> writes:

> - Merge commits that have uninteresting parents print branch lines for
>   all of their parents, even the uninteresting ones.
>
>   This is just a cosmetic issue, but I agree it looks bad.  Perhaps the
>   best thing to do is not to display anything for the uninteresting
>   parents.  It might look a little confusing to some users though, since
>   you can have a merge commit that is printed as 'M', but it only has
>   one parent displayed in the graph.

Ah, I was also going to suggest you _not_ to use 'M' at all.  In other
words, I do not see anything wrong if you drew the graph like this:

      *   1af8bca... Merge branch 'maint'
     /|
    | *   008442f... Merge branch 'maint-1.5.4' into maint
    | * e77b0b5... git-am: fix typo in usage message
    | * 74190d2... doc/git-daemon: s/uploadarchive/uploadarch/