Re: gitk-1.1 out

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jun 8, 2005, 14:49 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506080743040.2286@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <17053.35147.52729.794561@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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> * Commits that are pointed to by a tag in .git/refs/tags are now
>   marked with a little yellow "luggage label" shape attached to the
>   circle representing the commit.  The tag name is written on the
>   label.

Can you do the same for things in .git/refs/heads? Possibly using another color?

I realize that that may sound silly, but a tree that has many branches can validly be used with gitk with something like this:

	gitk $(ls .git/refs/heads)

and it results in gitk correctly showing all the different heads, but because they aren't marked in the output, it's almost impossible to understand what's up.

You can try it out with something like Jeff's tree at

	rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git/

if you want to, but the reason I noticed was that I was trying it out with the result of "git cvsimport" in a tree that had branches. If it had had flags for the branches, it would have been an _extremely_ nice visualization tool, as it was it was just "cool, but I can't tell what those different tips are" ;)

		Linus