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Re: RFC: Very useful script to SVG graph the git commits from a file orientated view

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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 9, 2013, 14:02 UTC
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Hi,
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr> wrote:
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> looking a little bit more into this, I was very suprised....
>
> there seems to be little/no tools in the git ecosystem that studies the dependencies between commits based on the file they modified and/or the conflict they would cause.
>
> Is there any pre-existing tool to do that ? It can be done with git-log --name-only(the graph_git.pl is just a graphing layer above that command) but i'm suprised that I couldn't find anything else
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> And that was at the file level, is there any tool to help find what commits can be reordered without causing conflicts ? I am not sure if there is an easy way to extract potential conflict information from git...
It looks like this tool will do "Proactive Merge Conflicts Detection":
http://commitq.com/
But it's true that it would be nice if there was something in git itself.

Thanks, Christian.

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  1. Jeremy RosenApr 9, 2013
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