# Compact view of history in gitk 5 messages from 2009-09-29 to 2009-09-30. Participants: Yakup Akbay, Johannes Sixt, Martin Langhoff, Dirk Süsserott. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21088 ## Yakup Akbay, 2009-09-29 11:49 Subject: Compact view of history in gitk Message-ID: <4AC1F435.4030802@ubicom.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4AC1F435.4030802%40ubicom.com ``` Hi, imagine a git history with many branches and many many commits in it, which you cannot have a bird's eye view to the whole git history (consider linux kernel). What I'm looking for is to see is a graphical history representation with only the tip of all branches plus all merge bases drwan like a molecul shape, where all intermediate commits are replaced by a single symbol like '~'. Think of the gitk version of the history below: E-*-*-*-F / A-*-*-*-*-*-*-B-C-*-*-*-D \ G-*-*-H-*-*-*-I \ J-*-*-*-*-*-K I want an output like this: E-~-F / A-~-B-C-~-D \ G-~-H-~-I \ J-~-K Is there an option in gitk (or in any other tool) to get such a view? Yakup ``` ## Johannes Sixt, 2009-09-29 12:07 Subject: Re: Compact view of history in gitk Message-ID: <4AC1F88E.7080802@viscovery.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4AC1F88E.7080802%40viscovery.net In-Reply-To: <4AC1F435.4030802@ubicom.com> ``` Yakup Akbay schrieb: > Think of the gitk version of the history below: > > E-*-*-*-F > / > A-*-*-*-*-*-*-B-C-*-*-*-D > \ > G-*-*-H-*-*-*-I > \ > J-*-*-*-*-*-K > > > I want an output like this: > > E-~-F > / > A-~-B-C-~-D > \ > G-~-H-~-I > \ > J-~-K > > Is there an option in gitk (or in any other tool) to get such a view? I think, --simplify-by-decoration comes close, even though it may not be 100% what you describe. -- Hannes ``` ## Yakup Akbay, 2009-09-29 12:44 Subject: Re: Compact view of history in gitk Message-ID: <4AC20123.20809@ubicom.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4AC20123.20809%40ubicom.com In-Reply-To: <4AC1F88E.7080802@viscovery.net> ``` Johannes Sixt wrote: > Yakup Akbay schrieb: > >> Think of the gitk version of the history below: >> >> E-*-*-*-F >> / >> A-*-*-*-*-*-*-B-C-*-*-*-D >> \ >> G-*-*-H-*-*-*-I >> \ >> J-*-*-*-*-*-K >> >> >> I want an output like this: >> >> E-~-F >> / >> A-~-B-C-~-D >> \ >> G-~-H-~-I >> \ >> J-~-K >> >> Is there an option in gitk (or in any other tool) to get such a view? >> > > I think, --simplify-by-decoration comes close, even though it may not be > 100% what you describe. > > -- Hannes > Thanks Hannes, this is exactly what I need! Yakup ``` ## Martin Langhoff, 2009-09-29 15:21 Subject: Re: Compact view of history in gitk Message-ID: <46a038f90909290821g4bb9cecewace8c8a516b74c78@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46a038f90909290821g4bb9cecewace8c8a516b74c78%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4AC1F88E.7080802@viscovery.net> ``` On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > I think, --simplify-by-decoration comes close, even though it may not be > 100% what you describe. That is awesome. Awesomer would be teaching gitk to expand (un-simplify) parts of it. Probably a pig of a project to do though :-/ m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ``` ## Dirk Süsserott, 2009-09-30 18:41 Subject: Re: Compact view of history in gitk Message-ID: <4AC3A644.9030407@dirk.my1.cc> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4AC3A644.9030407%40dirk.my1.cc In-Reply-To: <46a038f90909290821g4bb9cecewace8c8a516b74c78@mail.gmail.com> ``` Am 29.09.2009 17:21 schrieb Martin Langhoff: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: >> I think, --simplify-by-decoration comes close, even though it may not be >> 100% what you describe. > > That is awesome. > > Awesomer would be teaching gitk to expand (un-simplify) parts of it. > Probably a pig of a project to do though :-/ > > > > m I'm proud to tell that one might also use gitk's dialog 'View -> Edit view... (F4)' and then activate the 'Simple history' checkbox. :-) Gitk knows about that since Git v1.6.4-rc0. However, it doesn't do the awesomer part. Dirk ```