# qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch 3 messages from 2009-11-26 to 2009-11-27. Participants: Chris.Cheney, Michael J Gruber. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21768 ## Chris.Cheney, 2009-11-26 21:54 Subject: qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Xns9CCFDEF02D061ChrisCheneytesconet%4080.91.229.13 ``` 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, 2009-11-27 15:15 Subject: Re: qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch Message-ID: <4B0FECFA.9040307@drmicha.warpmail.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4B0FECFA.9040307%40drmicha.warpmail.net In-Reply-To: ``` 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 ``` ## Chris.Cheney, 2009-11-27 17:21 Subject: Re: qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Xns9CD0B0A0076E0ChrisCheneytesconet%4080.91.229.13 In-Reply-To: <4B0FECFA.9040307@drmicha.warpmail.net> ``` Michael J Gruber wrote in news:4B0FECFA.9040307@drmicha.warpmail.net: > 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 ```