From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: A better git log --graph? Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:35:03 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "Yuri D'Elia" , Git mailing list To: Johan Herland X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 07 17:36:59 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8taX-0005k7-JV for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:36:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754072AbbAGQf7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:35:59 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:60327 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752713AbbAGQf6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:35:58 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20421298C0; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:35:57 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=rltC05fizCn3TG94gG929IPXos4=; b=KSDrLU p0Mzl0b+PNsfzZvE2YBSNw2W+Il8ZjO3HvSMNoqEWtiA3refLrTZuT001eZJqQbi 7OHUx4R5v4/z0EpczWd/xR4FBzoBNeVL+V54WOo0/ovaVUQ/Quv/ZdfgQddhykcV gMquqIuWjpzudD0FmjJMKVuNHNtzdhtE3MqxQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=vKEVjr3M3car7l+r4zn8Kf1SXAXh7dyp c1Q4eppLDlMjWRYzjCckWXBIi+xx+FesP/tK9nSCn9OziYTuPDMnb6CXwcb0V5yr rXjsinzYUF8fmnhvYl8BrEvMKA6wx+pFzRQlw/LEDc9xPlZ8/vsRW5xxhTZ7Kip3 rXjvRtwSUrw= Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A2F298BF; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:35:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C30E72988B; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:35:04 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Johan Herland's message of "Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:47:13 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 224DEA34-968B-11E4-AB6E-42529F42C9D4-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johan Herland writes: > Have you looked at git show-branch --all? > > ...Johan Yeah, sounds vaguely like it. Its display certainly is easier to read while the set of branches you have is minimum and everything fits in a window; that is exactly why I wrote it back when the branches I was handling were toy-sized (I am not saying Git itself was toy-sized---the work-in-progress on top of Git I was doing was). > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Yuri D'Elia wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> git log --graph is hard for me to parse mentally when developing a >> project which has a lot of branches. >> >> All the tools I've been using seem to just parse log --graph's output, >> and thus are no better at showing history. >> >> I would love to have a graph mode where each branch is assigned a >> column, and stays there. If my log section shows the history of 3 >> branches, column 1 should always refer to master, 2 to the hypothetical >> "development" branch and 3 to "feature". >> >> Of course the mode will waste more horizontal space, but it would be >> immediately more apparent which branch is merging into which. >> >> I saw this idea proposed a couple of times in the mailing list, but I >> saw no "action" behind the proposal. Since I don't have time to work on >> it, has anyone already started some work that he would like to share as >> a starting point? Even just to have a felling if it's worth the effort. >> >> Does anybody know of another tool to graph the history using something >> that is not based on git log --graph? >> >> I've seen a couple of graphviz-based ones, but both failed to work out >> of the box for me. >> >> Thanks a lot for any pointer. >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html