On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:45:55AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > I've recently noticed that I'm often firing up gitk for no other purpose > than to see which changesets have which tags and branch heads. Often > I'll fire up gitk, quickly look at the tags/branches, and then kill it > before it's done parsing the repository, resulting in python errors as > it dies. > > So I'm wondering why we haven't arranged to have git-log show this > information, and whether there would be any objections if "git-log" > showed something like this: > > commit 7d5021d2ef5d414908d8e4db26c324c1de19f9f1 > Head: tytso-patches-20070223 > Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Feb 23 14:46:01 2007 -0500 > > Cherry pick "unload head on shutdown" patch > > ... > > commit c8f71b01a50597e298dc3214a2f2be7b8d31170c > Tag: v2.6.21-rc1 > Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Feb 20 20:32:30 2007 -0800 > > Linux 2.6.21-rc1 > > Would there be objections in adding this to --pretty=medium (i.e., the > default), or would it be better to add something like tihs to > --pretty=full or --pretty=fuller? > > The only reason why I could imagine not doing this by default would be a > potential performance problem if there were thousands of heads or branch > heads. > > - Ted I'll do this gitk jump very often, too. Just to get the big picture where my branches are (inside the commit graph). As they stay normaly on the tip, I exit gitk long before it reached the root commit. What I'd like to have is something which shows me _visually_ the the branches, e.g. master | next commit comment for next o | commit comment for master~1 | o commit comment for next~1 o | [ ... guess whats next :-) you get the idea ...] | o | | o / | tig comes near it, but it only linerarises the branches, so you can't see where there was a mergepoint/fork. I'd really like these visuallization of the commit graph in some of the text viewers. I normally don't care about the _full_ commit text, only if I visually understand what's happening I'm looking at the individual commits and the patches. There was some tool (can't remember its name or who it wrote; but posted here on this list) which visualizes the relation horizontaly and not vertically as shown above but has a limit of only displaying around 25 (not sure about this number; but definitly below 30 commits) which was at least displaying the commit graph which is _really_ really what I need. -Peter - 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