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Re: Newbie contribution idea for 'git log --children': input requested

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 15, 2022, 17:08 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Just sketching out an implementation, I think it is kind of similar to
> the "decorate" mechanism, where we build the commit->metadata mapping
> ahead of time, and then add output to the commits that we show. So we'd
> probably want to load it around the same time we call
> load_ref_decorations().

Yup, and yuck. I personaly doubt that the current --children is all that useful to begin with, and as you later mention, it would not be useful without some interactive "jump to" feature, either using the pager over "log --graph --oneline" output or "tig".

Thanks.
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