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
next prev 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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