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Subject: Re: Confusing git log --- First time bug submission please advise on
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:37:40 +0800
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To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
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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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