Re: [PATCH] rev-list: '--indent' oneline output

> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
>
>> Summaries in oneline output are indented to show the location of
>> parents in merge commits. Indentation level is computed as the
>> smallest sum of parent locations along all paths that reach the
>> commit.
>>
>> As a result, the output of
>>     git-rev-list --pretty=oneline --topo-order --indent
>> is formatted in a way that resembles merge summaries. All commits  
>> that
>> were pulled from a branch are indented with one additional space  
>> below
>> the summary of the merge commit.
>
> I would have expected this kind of UI level tweak to be done not
> as a rev-list feature, but the subject of the e-mail to read
> something like "--pretty=oneline: allow indentation levels",
> i.e. wouldn't the feature apply not just rev-list but also
> git-log?