From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:55:49 +0200 Message-ID: <200610212255.49791.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <45357CC3.4040507@utoronto.ca> <20061021130111.GL75501@over-yonder.net> <87ac3p1jn7.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Aaron Bentley , Linus Torvalds , Andreas Ericsson , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 21 22:55:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GbNse-0000Ou-0u for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:55:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161038AbWJUUzl (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:55:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161054AbWJUUzk (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:55:40 -0400 Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.214.232]:37028 "EHLO hu-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161038AbWJUUzk (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:55:40 -0400 Received: by hu-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 28so632283hub for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:55:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=XsC+TgrPFtVObHXXDiu1rzbj4kpkkP3mmyvxyzkHEQ2nr3DQvEViP4epcPaLa8+V8APkIy6Jk15Nb1nW4Zpp6cBNoTF7Z9GfBxYnWueQlHcE0qbXVZ/QpFTZ+g9HJUIop/3jZSjFoD01i+upj1rvGYlcSJjGP4DOv1SNnna7qzs= Received: by 10.67.89.5 with SMTP id r5mr4432239ugl; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl ( [81.190.23.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id y7sm1611131ugc.2006.10.21.13.55.37; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:55:37 -0700 (PDT) To: Carl Worth User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <87ac3p1jn7.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Carl Worth wrote: > Also, since the git names are so predictable, git almost never emits > them. It accepts them as names just fine, but it doesn't generate > them, (log, and commit never show the branch-specific names). I think > the only git command that even can emit such a name was a recently > added git-name-rev which exists solely for the purpose of mapping a > commit identifier to a local, branch-specific name which might have > more intuitive meaning for the user. git-show-branch also shows git-name-rev like names. BTW. git-show-branch has somewhat strange, and different from other git commands UI. You can think of it as text version of gitk/qgit history viewer (although you can use tig for CLI (ncurses) graph). -- Jakub Narebski Poland