Re: How to trim the fat on my log graphs

From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2014, 16:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHd499AovROt2fVAvh-ST9Vb7Hq8LpUS68i4eXWZaNszuKeUfg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtx9l2ggp.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Thanks, removing those two options did help quite a bit already. However, the history can still get pretty crazy. Is there a way to hide all tags from the log graph? Really I just want the LABELS to be hidden.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> git log log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative
>> --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset)%x09%C(bold
>> green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset) %C(dim
>> white)%an%C(reset) - %C(white)%s%C(reset)' --branches --remotes
>> ...
>> The goal is to weed out the really distant and irrelevant commits. I
>> really just want to see the commits that are closely related to my
>> current branch. Thanks in advance.
>
> For a starter, how about dropping "--branches --remotes" from that
> command line?  A merge from elsewhere will show as "Merge branch foo"
> which should be sufficient without the decoration.