Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 18 May 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> >> I never quite understood what they're for--do they add any information >> not already available in the history? If not, and if people still find >> them helpful anyway, then I dunno, it looks like a sign of some sort of >> failure of our history display tools. > > I don't think they add much in the case of a graphical viewer, but for > "git log", it does make it look nicer.. Especially if you do "git log --first-parent" ;-). - 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