Re: [RFC/GSOC] Git Beginner | Warnings for potentially destructive commands

> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If possible, I would suggest aiming for generating the actual topology
>> that the user is seeing, customized so that it gives relevenat
>> information, rather than static examples.
>
> Using the real topology in a useful way is actually pretty hard. It's
> quite easy to throw the output of "git log --graph --oneline ..." to the
> user, but as soon as the rebase deals with more than a handfull of
> commits, we'd want to simplify the history to show something
> understandable to the user (which by definition should be a beginner if
> he uses ggit), like replacing long sequences of commits with "..." or
> so. That is hard to get right.
>