On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Note that show-branch was invented way before the log family of commands > (which rev-list is a member of) learned --left-right/--boundary/--graph > options, and I personally think its graphical output mode outlived its > usefulness as a stopgap measure. As its "merge-base" and "independent" > modes have also been made redundant (see "git merge-base" for two options > to mimic their behaviour), we may want to start thinking about deprecating > the command, and the first step perhaps would be to replace its mention > from the first part of the Everyday Git document with something more > appropriate such as "git log". Hmm I had no idea 'git log' was so powerful. I'll be using that from now on instead of show-branch --topics :) Thanks for your detailed response, -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html