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Re: `git log --graph` with multiple roots is confusing

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 9, 2014, 07:16 UTC
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On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 03:04:19AM -0700, Gary Fixler wrote:
>
>> I just made a new test repo, added and fetched two unrelated repos,
>> and then did the log view (all/graph/decorate/oneline), and tacked on
>> --boundary, but saw no change. The root commits looked the same.
>
> There was some discussion a while back on making root commits more
> apparent in the graph view:
>
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239580
>
> That topic has stalled, but perhaps you can help push it forward.

Grafted commits are marked --decorate, so perhaps another (simpler) route to make root commits stand out is decorate them.

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Duy
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  3. Gary FixlerJun 30, 2014
  4. Jeff KingJul 9, 2014
  5. Duy NguyenJul 9, 2014

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