On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:43:46AM +0000, Francis Stephens wrote:
> Thanks for your clear response. I can see where I went wrong now.
Maybe something like this would help avoid confusion a bit in the
future? This toy patch puts a horizontal line as a break between two
commits if they are not related, so we can clearly see linear commit
segments.
--graph definitely helps, but it's too many threads for topic-based
development model like git.git that I avoid it most of the time.
-- 8< --
diff --git a/log-tree.c b/log-tree.c
index 08970bf..7841bf2 100644
--- a/log-tree.c
+++ b/log-tree.c
@@ -795,6 +795,7 @@ static int log_tree_diff(struct rev_info *opt, struct commit *commit, struct log
int log_tree_commit(struct rev_info *opt, struct commit *commit)
{
+ static struct commit_list *last_parents;
struct log_info log;
int shown;
@@ -805,6 +806,17 @@ int log_tree_commit(struct rev_info *opt, struct commit *commit)
if (opt->line_level_traverse)
return line_log_print(opt, commit);
+ if (last_parents) {
+ struct commit_list *p = last_parents;
+ int got_parent = 0;
+ for (; p && !got_parent; p = p->next)
+ got_parent = !hashcmp(p->item->object.sha1,
+ commit->object.sha1);
+ if (!got_parent)
+ printf("______________________________________________________________________\n");
+ free_commit_list(last_parents);
+ last_parents = NULL;
+ }
shown = log_tree_diff(opt, commit, &log);
if (!shown && opt->loginfo && opt->always_show_header) {
log.parent = NULL;
@@ -813,5 +825,6 @@ int log_tree_commit(struct rev_info *opt, struct commit *commit)
}
opt->loginfo = NULL;
maybe_flush_or_die(stdout, "stdout");
+ last_parents = copy_commit_list(commit->parents);
return shown;
}
-- 8< --
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:10 PM, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> The commits that are in the log for master and which are not in the
> >> log for originssh/master are merged in at "6833fd4 (HEAD, master);
> >> Completed merge".
> >>
> >> As "git log" can only present the commits in a linear way, it shows
> >> the commits from the ancentry of both parents of HEAD in a reverse
> >> chronological order. This means that the commits from the two
> >> ancestries are mixed and commits that are shown after each other don't
> >> have to be parent and child. See the documentation of "git log" and
> >> the section "Commit Ordering": "By default, the commits are shown in
> >> reverse chronological order."
> >
> > git log --graph can help with getting a better picture.
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