From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:24:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [bug] Graph log and orphan branches
Message-ID: <xmqqa8oreijr.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1451508209.9251.13.camel@kaarsemaker.net>

Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> writes:

> On wo, 2015-12-30 at 11:54 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > the graph output of log show orphan branches in a way that suggests
>> > they have a parent.
>> 
>> Reminds me of this ancient RFH topic
>> 
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/236708/focus
>> =239580
>> 
>> which unfortunately got no help...
>
> Instead of a blank line, why not something like this to make root
> commits stand out a bit?
>

That approach will lose information when a root commit is at the
boundary, marked as uninteresting, or on the left/right side of
traversal (when --left-right is requested).  As these pieces of
information that will be lost with such an approach are a lot more
relevant than "have we hit the root?", especially in the majority of
repositories where there is only one root commit, I do not think it
is acceptable.