Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 25, 2007, 22:25 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703260023260.4045@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v648p2cef.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> * jc/fpl (Tue Mar 13 01:57:22 2007 -0700) 1 commit
> >>  + git-log --first-parent: show only the first parent log
> >> 
> >> This makes viewing topic-heavy style of project history pleasant, at 
> >> least in my opinion.  With a bit of cheering up, I'd merge it to 
> >> 'master', as it has been cooking in 'next' without causing problems, and 
> >> is of low-impact kind.  But it can wait until 1.5.1 is done.
> >
> > *lol* I just tried it on 'next'...
> >
> > But I agree that it is ready to be merged, and that it is useful.
> 
> Hmph.  I am having hard time to decide what to make out of that "*lol*".

I was not sure what to expect, and thus was surprised by _that_ many diagonal lines...

But this picture -- unexpected as it was -- makes tons of sense if you are interested to see e.g. the history of a topic branch which was merged into 'next'.

So, I'm all in favour of this feature.

Ciao, Dscho