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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Cc: James Coglan via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, James Coglan <jcoglan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] graph: tidy up display of left-skewed merges
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:49:59 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5zkm7u88.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <863fb1b9-8829-64db-d355-56a97e979427@gmail.com> (Derrick Stolee's message of "Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:34:56 -0400")

Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:

> I hit this very situation recently when I was experimenting with
> 'git fast-import' and accidentally created many parallel, independent
> histories. Running "git log --graph --all --simplify-by-decoration"
> made it look like all the refs were in a line, but they were not.
> (The one way I knew something was up: the base commits also appeared
> without a decoration. That was the only clue that the histories did
> not continue in a line.)
>
>> 
>> and the fact that B and A do not share parent-child relationships is
>> lost.  An easy way to show that would be to draw the bottom three
>> lines of the full history output we saw earlier:
>> 
>>     | * e6277a9 C
>>     | * 13ae9b2 B
>>     * afee005 A
>> 
>> either with or without the vertical bar to imply that A may have a
>> child.
> The natural extension of this would be multiple columns:
>
>  | | | | | *
>  | | | | *
>  | | | *
>  | | *
>  | *
>  *

After sleeping over it, I now think we shouldn't draw lines that
imply a child for each of these commits, as we haven't seen, but
I agree that this can be extended to 3 or more roots.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-18  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-10 16:13 [PATCH 00/11] Improve the readability of log --graph output James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 01/11] graph: automatically track visible width of `strbuf` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 21:07   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-10 23:05     ` Denton Liu
2019-10-11  0:49       ` Derrick Stolee
2019-10-11  1:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-11  5:01         ` Denton Liu
2019-10-11 16:02           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-11 17:20             ` James Coglan
2019-10-12  0:27               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-12 16:22                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-14 12:55                 ` James Coglan
2019-10-14 13:01                   ` James Coglan
2019-10-16  2:15                   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-11  1:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-11 17:08     ` James Coglan
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 02/11] graph: reuse `find_new_column_by_commit()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 03/11] graph: reduce duplication in `graph_insert_into_new_columns()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 04/11] graph: remove `mapping_idx` and `graph_update_width()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 06/11] graph: tidy up display of left-skewed merges James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 17:19   ` Derrick Stolee
2019-10-11 16:50     ` James Coglan
2019-10-12  1:36       ` Derrick Stolee
2019-10-14 13:11         ` James Coglan
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 05/11] graph: extract logic for moving to GRAPH_PRE_COMMIT state James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 07/11] graph: commit and post-merge lines for left-skewed merges James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 17:49   ` Derrick Stolee
2019-10-11 17:04     ` James Coglan
2019-10-13  6:56       ` Jeff King
2019-10-14 15:38         ` James Coglan
2019-10-14 17:41           ` Derrick Stolee
2019-10-14 20:42           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 08/11] graph: rename `new_mapping` to `old_mapping` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 09/11] graph: smooth appearance of collapsing edges on commit lines James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 10/11] graph: flatten edges that join to their right neighbor James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 16:13 ` [PATCH 11/11] graph: fix coloring of octopus dashes James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-10 18:16   ` Denton Liu
2019-10-10 18:28     ` Denton Liu
2019-10-13  7:22     ` Jeff King
2019-10-10 17:54 ` [PATCH 00/11] Improve the readability of log --graph output Derrick Stolee
2019-10-13  7:15 ` Jeff King
2019-10-14 15:49   ` James Coglan
2019-10-15 23:40 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] " James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:40   ` [PATCH v2 01/13] graph: automatically track display width of graph lines James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:40   ` [PATCH v2 02/13] graph: handle line padding in `graph_next_line()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:40   ` [PATCH v2 03/13] graph: reuse `find_new_column_by_commit()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:40   ` [PATCH v2 04/13] graph: reduce duplication in `graph_insert_into_new_columns()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:40   ` [PATCH v2 05/13] graph: remove `mapping_idx` and `graph_update_width()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:40   ` [PATCH v2 06/13] graph: extract logic for moving to GRAPH_PRE_COMMIT state James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:40   ` [PATCH v2 07/13] graph: example of graph output that can be simplified James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:40   ` [PATCH v2 08/13] graph: tidy up display of left-skewed merges James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:41   ` [PATCH v2 09/13] graph: commit and post-merge lines for " James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:41   ` [PATCH v2 10/13] graph: rename `new_mapping` to `old_mapping` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:41   ` [PATCH v2 11/13] graph: smooth appearance of collapsing edges on commit lines James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:41   ` [PATCH v2 12/13] graph: flatten edges that fuse with their right neighbor James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:41   ` [PATCH v2 13/13] graph: fix coloring of octopus dashes James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:47   ` [PATCH v3 00/13] Improve the readability of log --graph output James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 01/13] graph: automatically track display width of graph lines James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-16  3:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-16  5:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 02/13] graph: handle line padding in `graph_next_line()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-16  3:37       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 03/13] graph: reuse `find_new_column_by_commit()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 04/13] graph: reduce duplication in `graph_insert_into_new_columns()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 05/13] graph: remove `mapping_idx` and `graph_update_width()` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 06/13] graph: extract logic for moving to GRAPH_PRE_COMMIT state James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 07/13] graph: example of graph output that can be simplified James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-17 12:30       ` Derrick Stolee
2019-10-18 15:21       ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-11-12  1:08         ` [PATCH] t4215: don't put git commands upstream of pipe Denton Liu
2019-11-12  6:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-12 10:54             ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-11-12 18:56           ` [PATCH v3] t4215: use helper function to check output Denton Liu
2019-11-13  2:05             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 08/13] graph: tidy up display of left-skewed merges James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-16  4:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-17 12:34         ` Derrick Stolee
2019-10-18  0:49           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 09/13] graph: commit and post-merge lines for " James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 10/13] graph: rename `new_mapping` to `old_mapping` James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 11/13] graph: smooth appearance of collapsing edges on commit lines James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 12/13] graph: flatten edges that fuse with their right neighbor James Coglan via GitGitGadget
2019-10-15 23:47     ` [PATCH v3 13/13] graph: fix coloring of octopus dashes James Coglan via GitGitGadget

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