Re: Gitk strangeness..

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mar 28, 2006, 02:52 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603271848190.15714@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <17448.40941.256361.866229@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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> I think the best thing to do is to change git-rev-list.  One
> possibility would be to add an option to make git-rev-list omit
> parents that are not in the requested set, which would mean that gitk
> would not draw the open-circle commits any more.

I love the open circles. I often want to know what the previous commit was. For example, I use gitk mainly for "gitk ORIG_HEAD..", and then I see the thing that the newly merged stuff was based on (ie was it a major release, or some random point).

> The other option would be to make git-rev-list list the open-circle
> commits explicitly, with an indication that they are not in the
> requested set but are parents of commits in the requested set.

Hmm. That shouldn't be hard to do, but what would be syntax be?

		Linus