Re: Any objectsions to enhancing git-log to show tags/branch heads?

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Apr 16, 2007, 19:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704161958470.6021@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20070416181352.GB29569@xp.machine.xx>

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Peter Baumann wrote:

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> master
> | next			commit comment for next
> o  |		commit comment for master~1
> |  o			commit comment for next~1
> o  |	[ ... guess whats next :-)		you get the idea ...]
> |  o
> |  |
> o /
> |
>
> tig comes near it, but it only linerarises the branches, so you can't see
> where there was a mergepoint/fork. I'd really like these visuallization of
> the commit graph in some of the text viewers. I normally don't care about
> the _full_ commit text, only if I visually understand what's happening I'm
> looking at the individual commits and the patches.

If you turn on the revision graph visualisation (press 'g' whil in main view) then tig will show merges and forks ... looks a little like your diagram above in fact.

-- 
Julian

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