From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:00:41 GMT Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git Message-ID: <7vslmnbl92.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds 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.