[announce+patch] git-forest 20080402

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>]

Hi,


here is the current snapshot of git-forest, a text-based tree 
visualizer, as a patch to the git.git/contrib/ directory.

What's new since the last posting is that it now displays [HEAD]
along with a commit, since HEAD does not always need to be the
first commit that is graphed.
    The --all option now includes graphing a detached HEAD, as can
happen on switching to a non-branch and during rebases.
    Speaking of rebases, git-forest will now also show where you are in 
a rebase operation -- quite handy if you forget whether you actually are 
in one (happened to me time and again and when you finally notice, you 
need to play with HEAD@{x} to restore it) -- it can be suppressed 
with --no-rebase.

I updated the screenshot at 
http://jengelh.hopto.org/images/git-forest.png (URL unchanged).
Color-agnostic people may use the --no-color option. (Tag colors 
follow gitk as far as the 16 colors permit.)

The direct grab URL for the script is still
http://dev.computergmbh.de/gitweb.cgi?p=hxtools;a=blob_plain;f=bin/git-forest
but of course a patch is provided below with the intent of getting it 
into contrib/ at least.


thanks,
Jan

N.B.: This was a ridiculous command to get it right...
can't this be done easier?
`git-format-patch -C -M --stat=72 --summary -p --thread -n HEAD^..HEAD &&
git-send-email --suppress-from --no-chain --compose --to git@xxx 00*`