On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So the second one allows things like > > git log --pretty=oneline --source --all A better example may have --abbrev-commit, at which point my current git tree looks like this for me: 52be8b3... refs/heads/master Add a 'source' decorator for commits affba33... refs/heads/master Add file delete/create info when we overflow rename 6806f78... refs/remotes/origin/pu Merge branch 'ar/mksnpath' into pu 058412d... refs/remotes/origin/pu Fix potentially dangerous uses of mkpath and g 356af64... refs/remotes/origin/pu Merge branch 'ar/maint-mksnpath' into HEAD 9fa03c1... refs/remotes/origin/pu Fix potentially dangerous uses of mkpath and g 94cc355... refs/remotes/origin/pu Fix mkpath abuse in dwim_ref and dwim_log of s 108bebe... refs/remotes/origin/pu Add mksnpath which allows you to specify the o 6af1fc2... refs/remotes/origin/man Autogenerated manpages for v1.6.0.3-523-g304d 61b1229... refs/remotes/origin/html Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.0.3-523-g30 f3ce133... refs/remotes/origin/pu Merge branch 'jc/send-pack-tell-me-more' into 2b37e3a... refs/remotes/origin/pu Merge branch 'jk/renamelimit' into pu .. ie you can see the the branch that the commits are on. An example of the ambiguous nature would be 304d058... refs/remotes/origin/HEAD Merge branch 'maint' ie because the HEAD and 'master' branches of refs/remotes/origin are the same, it's ambiguous which one to take, and git will have picked one at random. And obviously when you hit a point where two branches meet again, it really will depend on which branch we happened to be parsing at the time (which generally is "which branch had a commit date that was further back in history"). Another known deficiency: "gitk --source" doesn't work (neither does "gitk --decorate" for that matter). gitk gets very upset indeed if you try, and sucks up CPU cycles in some infinite loop. Linus -- 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
