From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 18:36:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: '--indent' oneline output
Message-ID: <7vveenl4u4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1179676829751-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> Summaries in oneline output are indented to show the location of
> parents in merge commits. Indentation level is computed as the
> smallest sum of parent locations along all paths that reach the
> commit.
>
> As a result, the output of
>     git-rev-list --pretty=oneline --topo-order --indent
> is formatted in a way that resembles merge summaries. All commits that
> were pulled from a branch are indented with one additional space below
> the summary of the merge commit.

I would have expected this kind of UI level tweak to be done not
as a rev-list feature, but the subject of the e-mail to read
something like "--pretty=oneline: allow indentation levels",
i.e. wouldn't the feature apply not just rev-list but also
git-log?