Re: Possible BUG in 'git log --parents'

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 7, 2007, 10:14 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550707070314q3b78ac65p9a8ff3130a7bfaef@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vps348qzi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 7/7/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>
> Line wrapping in the middle of a single object name makes it
> hard to read doesn't it?
>

Sorry!

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> I recall we added an extra logic in rev-list side to squash the
> parent commits that artificially becomes duplicate due to this
> history simplification logic, which we might want to port to
> git-log.  However, I have a slight suspicion that we earlier
> decided not to do so on purpose with git-log and for a good
> reason.  I do not have much energy left tonight to dig into this
> right now, but mailing list log and commit log messages for
> rev-list.c, builtin-log.c and builtin-rev-list.c might tell you
> more.
>

I will take a look hoping to *not* find anything important, now that qgit rely on git log instead of git-rev-list to show the graph, I would really hope that it is possible to patch git-log in the same way then git-rev-list.

Thanks Marco