Re: git log --graph and root commits

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2009, 00:40 UTC
Message-ID: <slrngpc4op.jdo.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3wsbuthp1.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On 2009-02-13, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 2009-02-13, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

>>> 	git log --graph --pretty=format:'%h %s%n'

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>> It doubles the height requirement, but you gave me an idea:
>> 
>>     git log --graph --pretty=tformat:'%h <%p> %s' --all |
>>         perl -pe '$_.="----\n" if /<>/; s/<.*?> //'
>> 
>> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
>
> Gaaah... I tried running it on git.git :-))))

:-)

Seriously, I find 'log --graph' is useful on projects where not everyone is an expert and things might go a little haywire here and there. People merge the wrong thing with the wrong other thing, maybe, and you want to see how precisely they got there.

A project managed by git.gods can become a lot more complex and not have to actually care about this visualisation.

Of course, gitk is really good and manages a lot more complexity, obviously, but I like 'log --graph' also. And I've sort of fallen in love with --simplify-by-decoration too. Very cool stuff.

The things you can do on an xterm...!