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From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
	Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>,
	Francis Stephens <francisstephens@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Confusing git log --- First time bug submission please advise on best practices
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:37:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANgJU+UcONQYAQ7K-_W7H_12JhfG+iuqYAU81xYMc5kLPXwn_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140207102619.GA27616@lanh>

On 7 February 2014 18:26, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:43:46AM +0000, Francis Stephens wrote:
>> Thanks for your clear response. I can see where I went wrong now.
>
> Maybe something like this would help avoid confusion a bit in the
> future? This toy patch puts a horizontal line as a break between two
> commits if they are not related, so we can clearly see linear commit
> segments.

FWIW, this would have saved a lot of head scratching at work over the years.

I'd love to see this in place.

Yves


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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-07 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-06 14:02 Confusing git log --- First time bug submission please advise on best practices Francis Stephens
2014-02-06 16:08 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
2014-02-06 16:10   ` David Kastrup
2014-02-07  9:43     ` Francis Stephens
2014-02-07 10:26       ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-07 11:37         ` demerphq [this message]
2014-02-08 13:50           ` [PATCH] log: add --show-linear-break to help see non-linear history Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-17 12:51             ` [PATCH v2] log: add --nonlinear-barrier " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-17 19:09               ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-17 20:32               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-18 11:46                 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-18 19:08                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-20  5:44               ` [PATCH v3 1/2] object.h: centralize object flag allocation Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-20  5:44                 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] log: add --show-linear-break to help see non-linear history Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-20 19:15                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-21  1:02                     ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-25 13:23                 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] object.h: centralize object flag allocation Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-25 13:23                   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] log: add --show-linear-break to help see non-linear history Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-25 22:30                     ` Junio C Hamano

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