Re: Itches with the current rev spec

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2013, 19:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0nH0n2UZeMh_q4TQuUqzwhp8qGk9Oi+2DExozkuyfKzTg@mail.gmail.com>
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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Compare these (gitk will give you nicer picture):
>
>    $ git log --oneline --graph --left-right A...B
>    $ git log --oneline --graph --left-right B...A

Darn. I didn't realize that rev-list had a --left-right to mark commits with <, >, or - before giving it to the command. So, that's one more thing to note: there are positive and negative commits, as well as commits marked with a direction (in the special case of --left-right). Have we missed anything?

> It may be nice if the low-level operated on more than one DAG, but
> it is very close to a proposition to throw the baby with the
> bathwater and restart from scratch.  It is a lot more than a little
> "as an aside" task.

I know too little to comment on the issue.  I was merely musing.