Re: qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch

From: Chris.Cheney <chris.cheney.nospam@tesco.net>
Date: Nov 27, 2009, 17:21 UTC
Message-ID: <Xns9CD0B0A0076E0ChrisCheneytesconet@80.91.229.13>
In-Reply-To: <4B0FECFA.9040307@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote in news:4B0FECFA.9040307@drmicha.warpmail.net:

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> Chris.Cheney venit, vidit, dixit 26.11.2009 22:54:
>> My commit graph has a number of forks (I can't use the word
>> "branches" here) that are referenced only by a tag. Whereas gitk
>> --all displays this graph including those forks, qgit does not
>> display those forks - I don't see a way to make it do so, other than
>> by adding branches to those tagged commits. 
>> 
>> Have I overlooked something?
>> 
> 
> qgit --all does it for me. It may not be the newest qgit, though.
> I use tags like that to mark a version of a topic branch before
> rebasing, so that on old version won't be gc'ed away and the branch
> name space is not too crowded. Poor man's topgit, so to say. I guess
> it's a common use case.
> 
> Michael
>

Doh, indeed it does.

The problem was that qgit isn't (by default) installed in the git program directory, as is gitk. Ok, I'll need to add a script in the git directory to invoke qgit (passing the command-line arguments through) from where it resides.

(WIBNI qgit and gitk provided a menu item to switch to --all mode.)

Thanks for your help

Chris