Johannes SixtBrian FOSTER schrieb:
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> Johannes Sixt kindly replied: >> [ ... ] >> For me, the unusable [ `gitk' ] scrollbar alone would be reason enough >> to truncate the history. >> [ ... ] I have gitk running all the time. So, yes, it is "important." >> But I run it basically as 'gitk --all --not origin' and press F5 frequently. >> With this set of arguments the scrollbar remains usable, and performance >> is not an issue, even on Windows. > > Hannes, > > May I ask why you are running `gitk' all the time? > Is this on some sort of a Linux kernel repository or something else?
Something else (~9000 commits, most of them imported from CVS).
I have gitk running all the time because I want a quick way to see "where I am". That I get by pressing F5 (instead of typing in a longish command to fire up gitk) and the mentioned argument list.
Also, quite a lot of the work I do is to polish a topic branch using 'git rebase -i'. By browsing through the commits, I quickly get an overview whether the branch is fine or needs more work.
> Am I correct in interpreting `--all --not origin' as meaning "every > branch except those in origin/*" (i.e., all branches except the > remote-tracking ones)?
Not quite. It means the same as for 'git log': The commits from all branches *but not* the commits from branch 'origin' (which is an alias for origin/master, in my case, that's what is "published"). This is my way to reduce the number of commits that are displayed and it amounts to ~300 commits.
-- Hannes