Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] gitk: pass --no-graph to `git log`

[Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 12:20 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > What if we make log.graph=true also require feature.experimental=true?
>
> No.  feature.experimental is to give people an opt-in opportunity
> for features that we are considering to enable by default.
>
> > The log.graph option would really be a useful feature for people who
> > use Git exclusively from the CLI without any external tools. It seems
> > that the main challenge is how to give others time to adjust.
>
> Those who want to see log by default must need to twaek their
> configuration.  Instead of doing "git config log.graph true" and
> breaking tools, they can do "git config alias.mylog 'log --graph'"
> with the same ease, without breaking anything.
>
> So...

Yeah, that's not a bad solution. I actually have `git graph` aliased to
`git log --graph --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline` for this purpose.
If a lot of people are doing that, maybe a new command should be added
to Git itself. It seems like there's not much demand for that at the
moment though.

-Alex