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qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch

Subject: qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch

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3 messages between Nov 26, 2009 and Nov 27, 2009.

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Chris.Cheney· Nov 26, 2009, 21:54 UTC · lore

My commit graph has a number of forks (I can't use the word "branches" here) that are referenced only by a tag. Whereas gitk --all displays this graph including those forks, qgit does not display those forks - I don't see a way to make it do so, other than by adding branches to those tagged commits.

Have I overlooked something?

TIA

Chris

Michael J Gruber· Nov 27, 2009, 15:15 UTC · re: Chris.Cheney · lore

Re: qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch

Chris.Cheney venit, vidit, dixit 26.11.2009 22:54:

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> My commit graph has a number of forks (I can't use the word "branches" 
> here) that are referenced only by a tag. Whereas gitk --all displays this 
> graph including those forks, qgit does not display those forks - I don't 
> see a way to make it do so, other than by adding branches to those tagged 
> commits. 
> 
> Have I overlooked something?
>

qgit --all does it for me. It may not be the newest qgit, though. I use tags like that to mark a version of a topic branch before rebasing, so that on old version won't be gc'ed away and the branch name space is not too crowded. Poor man's topgit, so to say. I guess it's a common use case.

Michael

Chris.Cheney· Nov 27, 2009, 17:21 UTC · re: Michael J Gruber · lore

Re: qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote in news:4B0FECFA.9040307@drmicha.warpmail.net:

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> Chris.Cheney venit, vidit, dixit 26.11.2009 22:54:
>> My commit graph has a number of forks (I can't use the word
>> "branches" here) that are referenced only by a tag. Whereas gitk
>> --all displays this graph including those forks, qgit does not
>> display those forks - I don't see a way to make it do so, other than
>> by adding branches to those tagged commits. 
>> 
>> Have I overlooked something?
>> 
> 
> qgit --all does it for me. It may not be the newest qgit, though.
> I use tags like that to mark a version of a topic branch before
> rebasing, so that on old version won't be gc'ed away and the branch
> name space is not too crowded. Poor man's topgit, so to say. I guess
> it's a common use case.
> 
> Michael
>

Doh, indeed it does.

The problem was that qgit isn't (by default) installed in the git program directory, as is gitk. Ok, I'll need to add a script in the git directory to invoke qgit (passing the command-line arguments through) from where it resides.

(WIBNI qgit and gitk provided a menu item to switch to --all mode.)

Thanks for your help

Chris