Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > [administrivia: please avoid culling addresses from To:/Cc: lines] Yikes, sorry about that. I've been sending messages through Gmane rather than via email, and I didn't realize the list didn't automatically send messages to the appropriate people who are only reading the list via actual email (as I am not such a person). > Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> What about just putting an extra blank line after every root commit line >> (possibly except the last one)? That should make it plenty easy to see >> where the root commits are in --oneline mode. I think it would actually >> be easier to spot at a glance than replacing `*` with `x` because it >> creates a gap in all columns of the output, rather than only in column >> 1. Also, this is very subjective but I think it looks kind of ugly to >> use "x" :P > > I agree to all of the above, including the ugliness of 'x' ;-) > > A "blank" may however be hard to spot, if the range is limited, > though. For example, > > $ git log --graph --oneline a4.. > * HEAD > /* a1 > | * a2 > | * a3 > * b1 > * b2 > * b3 > > where "a4", which is a root, is the sole parent of "a3" and HEAD is > a merge between "a1" and "b1" might produce something like this, > while we may get this from the same history, when shown unlimited: > > $ git log --graph --oneline > * HEAD > /* a1 > | * a2 > | * a3 > | * a4 > | > * b1 > * b2 > * b3 > > A divider line might make it visually a lot more strong, i.e. > > $ git log --graph --oneline > * HEAD > /* a1 > | * a2 > | * a3 > | * a4 > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > * b1 > * b2 > * b3 > > but I am not sure if it is too distracting. I would be fine with that, fwiw. We can also turn it on and off with a config option if people really don't like it, I suppose... -Keshav -- 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