From: Christian Couder Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:02:34 GMT Subject: Re: RFC: Very useful script to SVG graph the git commits from a file orientated view Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1344434918.1379702.1365497705958.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr> Hi, On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Jeremy Rosen wrote: > 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 > > 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.