Re: Any objectsions to enhancing git-log to show tags/branch heads?

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:07:04AM +0200, Peter Baumann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:27:49PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:13:52PM +0200, Peter Baumann wrote:
> > > I'll do this gitk jump very often, too. Just to get the big picture where my
> > > branches are (inside the commit graph). As they stay normaly on the tip, I
> > > exit gitk long before it reached the root commit. What I'd like to have is
> > > something which shows me _visually_ the the branches, e.g.
> > > 
> > > master
> > > | next			commit comment for next
> > > o  |		commit comment for master~1
> > > |  o			commit comment for next~1
> > > o  |	[ ... guess whats next :-)		you get the idea ...]
> > > |  o
> > > |  |
> > > o /
> > > |
> > 
> > git show-branch?
> > 
> > --b.
> 
> No. git-show-branch produces output like the snippet below, which is totally
> non obious to me. Yes, I could figure out what it means, but why the hell
> _should_ I if there are tools for which you have to look just for a second
> on the ouput to _fully_ understand whats happening?

Yeah, I find it pretty opaque too.--b.