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Re: Listing of branch creation time?

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DLDavid Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Date
Mar 27, 2007, 23:51 UTC
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
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> On Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 20:10:27 (-0400) Jeff King writes:
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:08:07PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
>>
>>> Queries that help me answer the question of "did I merge this
>>> branch?", "when did I merge it?" (i.e., "Can I delete this branch?"),
>>> along with creation times and last modified times, I think would be
>>> helpful.
>>
>> I find that a nice 'gitk branch...origin' answers most of those for me
>> (it's everything in both branches going back to the last time they
>> merged).
>
> Hmm, perhaps I should learn to use gitk more, though I must admit
> to being somewhat of an anti-GUI bigot (i.e., lazy).

given that we had someone post a tool to the list that creates ascii-art merge diagrams, I wonder if it would scratch anyone's itch to make an ascii output version of gitk?

the code posted was limited to 26 merges, but it would probably be easy enough to do two-letter nodes (although at that point do you _really_ want it on a text screen ;-)

David Lang
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Message 11 of 17 in “Listing of branch creation time?”
  1. Bill LearMar 27, 2007
  2. git-branch: add --sort-by-date optionJohannes Schindelin, Mar 27, 2007
  3. Bill LearMar 27, 2007
  4. Teach revision machinery about --no-walkJohannes Schindelin, Jul 23, 2007
  5. Jeff KingMar 27, 2007
  6. Bill LearMar 28, 2007
  7. Jeff KingMar 28, 2007
  8. Bill LearMar 28, 2007
  9. Jeff KingMar 28, 2007
  10. Bill LearMar 28, 2007
  11. David LangMar 27, 2007
  12. Jeff KingMar 28, 2007
  13. Nicolas PitreMar 28, 2007
  14. Nicolas PitreMar 28, 2007
  15. Linus TorvaldsMar 28, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2007
  17. Jeff KingMar 28, 2007

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