From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing) Subject: Re: gitk screenshots of complex history Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:52:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20070727135238.GW21692@lavos.net> References: <20070727041300.GD20052@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 27 15:52:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IEQFS-0004cI-EI for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:52:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760043AbXG0Nwv (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:52:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933398AbXG0Nwv (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:52:51 -0400 Received: from gateway.insightbb.com ([74.128.0.19]:42047 "EHLO asav04.insightbb.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759224AbXG0Nwu (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:52:50 -0400 Received: from 74-134-246-243.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO mail.lavos.net) ([74.134.246.243]) by asav04.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 27 Jul 2007 09:52:47 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqMwANSVqUZKhvbzRmdsb2JhbACBTY4RAQEBNQE Received: by mail.lavos.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4BBD8309F31; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:52:38 -0500 (CDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070727041300.GD20052@spearce.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 12:13:01AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > I've mentioned both on list and on #git that one of my production > repositories has a few weird points in time. Some folks have asked > to see at least screenshots of the line part of the gitk output, > as apparently they've never seen ugly history in Git. Lucky them. > > The images are rather large so I have posted them on my website > with a bit longer explanation of each: > > http://www.spearce.org/2007/07/difficult-gitk-graphs.html > OK, no more screenshots from *that* repository! I don't ever want > to run `gitk --all` there again. Ever. Were those graphs generated with --topo-order (the default) or --date-order? I've found complex history usually looks a lot more manageable with --date-order. Certainly the Git history is a LOT less wide with --all --date-order than --all. Does this help your situation as well? -bcd