Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Lyubomyr Shaydariv <lsh.dev@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> When log.showRootMark is set, root commits are marked with >> the at sign (@). >> >> When log.showRootMark is not set, root commits are marked with >> the asterisk sign (*). This is the default behavior. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lyubomyr Shaydariv <lsh.dev@xxxxxxx> >> --- > > So the idea is when you have a history like this: > ... > and that would work well with --left-right automatically (as you > would just do the same thing as you would to a normal asterisk). There was some discussion a while back on making root commits more apparent in the graph view, e.g. https://public-inbox.org/git/1382717268-21884-1-git-send-email-milton.soares.filho@xxxxxxxxx/