# How to restrict gitk to show only branch/merge commits? 3 messages from 2009-05-06 to 2009-05-06. Participants: Josef Wolf, Andreas Ericsson, Jakub Narebski. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19195 ## Josef Wolf, 2009-05-06 07:20 Subject: How to restrict gitk to show only branch/merge commits? Message-ID: <20090506072053.GL15420@raven.wolf.lan> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090506072053.GL15420%40raven.wolf.lan ``` Hello, I would like gitk to show me only the heads, branch-points and merge-points of branches. For example, given a history like this: d...e--F--g...h--H / \ a1--a2...an--b--C N--o...p--P \ / i...j--K--l...m--M I would like to see only - a1 because it has no parent - C,F,K because they are reachable from multiple heads - N because it has multiple parents - H,M,P because they are heads Ideally, there would be a possibility to add some "context" to the list of commits to be shown: with $context==1, all the commits shown in the above history would be shown, but the commits indicated by the triple-dots would be omitted. The reason is that I have some repositories with several really long linear history. It is hard to get a global overview about the branch history if you have to scroll constantly. Is something like that possible with gitk? ``` ## Andreas Ericsson, 2009-05-06 07:42 Subject: Re: How to restrict gitk to show only branch/merge commits? Message-ID: <4A013F6A.5010003@op5.se> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A013F6A.5010003%40op5.se In-Reply-To: <20090506072053.GL15420@raven.wolf.lan> ``` Josef Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > I would like gitk to show me only the heads, branch-points and > merge-points of branches. > > For example, given a history like this: > > d...e--F--g...h--H > / \ > a1--a2...an--b--C N--o...p--P > \ / > i...j--K--l...m--M > > I would like to see only > > - a1 because it has no parent > - C,F,K because they are reachable from multiple heads > - N because it has multiple parents > - H,M,P because they are heads > > Ideally, there would be a possibility to add some "context" to the > list of commits to be shown: with $context==1, all the commits shown > in the above history would be shown, but the commits indicated by > the triple-dots would be omitted. > > The reason is that I have some repositories with several really long > linear history. It is hard to get a global overview about the branch > history if you have to scroll constantly. > > Is something like that possible with gitk? Not today, no. I'm not sure how hard it would be to add, and as I'm a tcl-analphabet the chances of successfully implementing it marginally increases if I don't work on it. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Register now for Nordic Meet on Nagios, June 3-4 in Stockholm http://nordicmeetonnagios.op5.org/ Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2009-05-06 07:51 Subject: Re: How to restrict gitk to show only branch/merge commits? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m37i0uoej7.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <20090506072053.GL15420@raven.wolf.lan> ``` Josef Wolf writes: > I would like gitk to show me only the heads, branch-points and > merge-points of branches. > > For example, given a history like this: > > d...e--F--g...h--H > / \ > a1--a2...an--b--C N--o...p--P > \ / > i...j--K--l...m--M > > I would like to see only > > - a1 because it has no parent > - C,F,K because they are reachable from multiple heads > - N because it has multiple parents > - H,M,P because they are heads > > Ideally, there would be a possibility to add some "context" to the > list of commits to be shown: with $context==1, all the commits shown > in the above history would be shown, but the commits indicated by > the triple-dots would be omitted. > > The reason is that I have some repositories with several really long > linear history. It is hard to get a global overview about the branch > history if you have to scroll constantly. > > Is something like that possible with gitk? I am not sure if it would give you exactly what you want, but if I understand correctly gitk accepts arguments for git-log (and you can set them somewhere in options, too). Take a look at section "History Simplification" in git-log/git-rev-list manpage, in particular at option '--simplify-by-decoration' there. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ```