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From: Peter Baumann <peter.baumann@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Any objectsions to enhancing git-log to show tags/branch heads?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:07:04 +0200
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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?

-Peter

xp:~/src/git (master)$ git show-branch
! [editpatch] Merge branch 'maint'
 * [master] Merge branch 'jc/index-output'
  ! [pu] Merge branch 'jc/diff' into pu
---
 -  [master] Merge branch 'jc/index-output'
 *  [master^2] git-read-tree --index-output=<file>
 *  [master^2^] _GIT_INDEX_OUTPUT: allow plumbing to output to an alternative index file.
 *  [master^^2] Makefile: Add '+' to QUIET_SUBDIR0 to fix parallel make.
 *  [master~2^2] git-bisect: allow bisecting with only one bad commit.
 *  [master~2^2^] t6030: add a bit more tests to git-bisect
 *  [master~2^2~2] git-bisect: moderni
...