Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jun 2, 2006, 16:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7vslmnbl92.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606020849390.5498@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> Yeah, I don't think there is any reason to really support it. If you have 
> more than a few heads, you really do need the graphical version to see 
> what is going on, and git-show-branch doesn't buy you anything.

The real reason it uses a bit per given ref is what it wants to show is different from what gitk shows. It wants to show which ones are reachable from which head on each commit -- in gitk the user has to follow the line to find it out.

However, to track 300 branches, you would need a terminal with 360 columns or so, _and_ you have to count columns to see if a given commit is reachable from the ref you are interested in, so it is not useful at all in practice to do more than a handful refs at a time.