"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >> > >> > I just compared my own history to Linus' linux-2.6 history. >> > The kernel team can't hold a candle to this mess. >> >> Rather on purpose, I might add. I've actually been fairly anal about >> having people maintain clean histories, to the point where I refuse to >> pull from trees that don't do a good enough job. > > For 4 of our internal repositories I've taken that policy up now > myself, and nobody is allowed to create releases from them except me. > This has helped. A lot. So does sensible use of `git rebase -i`. > You and Junio have really sold me on the value of having someone > play a very strict gatekeeper role. I get better work product from > my coworkers this way too. They know someone else is looking at > what they are doing and try harder. > > But it doesn't help the really old history, nor does it help > the repository these images came from. I don't own/control that > development. I just provide git help as much as I can. One idea I have not yet put into any code is using graphviz for creating a nice (possibly clickable) layout of a commit history. It might be able to rearrange things such that the long parallel lines get avoided. Could be an interesting feature for the HTML visualizers. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
