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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: first parent, commit graph layout, and pull merge direction
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 06:34:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2zR7qYp58M_TqUqRNW24Ap5m5DsH4WWuHD3MiBu2Wg0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130522115042.GA20649@inner.h.apk.li>

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm just looking into better displays of the commit graph (as
> displayed with gitk, smartgit, fisheye) - they tend to quickly
> dissolve into a heap of spaghetti.
>
> We had the idea that treating the first parent specially would
> have some advantage here - including graphically indicating which
> one of the parents of a commit is the first parent. (For instance,
> by letting that line leave the commit node at the top/bottom,
> and the other(s) to the side.)

I don't understand; gitk already shows the first parent starting from
the bottom, and the merge commits arrive from the right side. What am
I missing?

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-23 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-22 11:50 first parent, commit graph layout, and pull merge direction Andreas Krey
2013-05-22 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-23  9:06   ` Andreas Krey
2013-05-23  9:48     ` John Szakmeister
2013-05-23 10:07       ` Jeremy Rosen
2013-05-23 10:29       ` Andreas Krey
2013-05-23 11:08         ` John Keeping
2013-05-23 16:01           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-23 16:41             ` John Keeping
2013-05-23 21:01               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-23 21:55                 ` John Keeping
2013-05-23 21:59                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-23 22:11                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-23 22:46                     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-23 22:54                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-23 23:09                         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-23 23:26                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-23 23:53                             ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-24  8:29                               ` John Keeping
2013-05-24  9:38                                 ` John Szakmeister
2013-05-24  0:03                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-05-24  0:21                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-24  0:24                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-05-24  0:25                         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-24  0:32                           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-24 16:26                             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-24 20:47                               ` Philip Oakley
2013-06-27 19:48                       ` [PATCH] pull: require choice between rebase/merge on non-fast-forward pull Junio C Hamano
2013-06-27 20:10                         ` W. Trevor King
2013-06-27 21:20                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-28  1:08                             ` W. Trevor King
2013-06-28  6:34                           ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-28  9:09                             ` W. Trevor King
2013-06-28 11:52                               ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-28 12:28                                 ` W. Trevor King
2013-06-27 20:11                         ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-06-27 20:49                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-27 20:30                         ` W. Trevor King
2013-06-27 20:58                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-27 22:16                         ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-28  1:19                           ` W. Trevor King
2013-06-28  8:09                         ` John Keeping
2013-06-28 17:22                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-28 17:42                             ` John Keeping
2013-06-28 22:41                               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-02 21:18                                 ` John Keeping
2013-07-14 15:03                                 ` [PATCH] fixup! " John Keeping
2013-07-15  4:23                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-28 23:22                                 ` [PATCH] " Felipe Contreras
2013-07-18 14:30                         ` John Keeping
2013-07-18 17:38                           ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-18 18:00                             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-18 19:35                               ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2013-07-19  0:54                                 ` Eric Sunshine
2013-07-19 16:22                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-19 20:29                                     ` Eric Sunshine
2013-07-19 22:20                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-19 22:30                                         ` Eric Sunshine
2013-07-19 22:55                                           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-22 19:08                                 ` Flimm
2013-05-24 17:11             ` first parent, commit graph layout, and pull merge direction Andreas Krey
2013-05-24 19:23               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-23 19:25     ` Andreas Krey
2013-05-24  9:29       ` Holger Hellmuth (IKS)
2013-05-24 13:42         ` Andreas Krey
2013-05-24 15:05           ` Holger Hellmuth (IKS)
2013-05-24 17:24             ` Andreas Krey
2013-05-23 11:34 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2013-05-23 12:21   ` Andreas Krey

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