From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Kyle Marek <kmarek@pdinc.us>
Cc: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] revision: Denote root commits with '#'
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:47:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo8hkgl4h.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <460257a2-478a-eb4c-f6fa-b1cc55384cd5@pdinc.us> (Kyle Marek's message of "Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:25:48 -0500")
Kyle Marek <kmarek@pdinc.us> writes:
> When graphing C..Z, git produces output like:
>
> * 0fbb0dc (HEAD -> z) Z
> |\
> | * 11be529 (master) B
> | * 8dd1b85 A
> * 851a915 Y
> * 27d3ed0 (x) X
>
> We cannot tell from the above graph alone that X is a root and A is not.
I actually do not see that as a problem. In the past several years,
I've never needed to see "log --graph" output that goes all the way
down to the roots, unless I was playing with a toy repository in
order to tweak and/or develop a feature in Git that draws the graph.
Besides, such root commtis in real life projects would not say "X",
but something along the lines of "my very initial commit", which
would be much more "/<search>" friendly to pagers than "#".
So, no, sorry, but I do not buy "root is more special" at all.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-20 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-14 18:30 add a blank line when a commit has no parent in log output? Jason Pyeron
2021-01-14 19:29 ` Philippe Blain
2021-01-14 20:44 ` Jason Pyeron
2021-01-17 11:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] Option to modify revision mark for root commits Kyle Marek
2021-01-17 11:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] revision: Denote root commits with '#' Kyle Marek
2021-01-17 21:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-18 7:56 ` Kyle Marek
2021-01-18 19:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-18 20:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-19 7:43 ` Kyle Marek
2021-01-19 22:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-20 3:25 ` Kyle Marek
2021-01-20 6:47 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-01-20 15:11 ` Jason Pyeron
2021-01-20 21:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-20 23:01 ` Jason Pyeron
2021-01-23 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-23 23:02 ` Jason Pyeron
2021-01-23 23:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-24 0:02 ` Jason Pyeron
2021-01-25 7:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-17 22:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-17 11:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] revision: implement --show-linear-break for --graph Kyle Marek
2021-01-17 22:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-18 2:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-18 7:56 ` Kyle Marek
2021-01-18 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-19 7:44 ` Kyle Marek
2021-01-15 1:12 ` add a blank line when a commit has no parent in log output? Junio C Hamano
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