I just made a new test repo, added and fetched two unrelated repos, and then did the log view (all/graph/decorate/oneline), and tacked on --boundary, but saw no change. The root commits looked the same. -g On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:08 AM, John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:40:40PM -0700, Gary Fixler wrote: >> I sometimes pull things in from unrelated repositories to rebase or >> cherry-pick items from a different line of development. I've done this >> to bring isolated features into a project in their own feature >> branches with their full development histories, and also to extract >> lines of development out to their own project, with their histories >> intact. These are usually not connected commits, but things I have to >> track down across time with `git log -S` and friends. >> >> When I `git remote add otherrepo <url>`, then view things with my >> aliased `git log --oneline --all --graph --decorate` alias, I'm >> usually immediately straining to figure out what's what, as the two >> trees stack onto each other with no separation. It would be nice if >> root commits used something other than *, and/or if they could be >> colored differently by default, or via some option to make them stand >> out as parent-less commits. >> >> Is this feasible, or already possible? > > Have you tried `git log --boundary`? -- 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