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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew L Foster <mfoster167@yahoo.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: merge time
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:41:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070730084138.GA4100@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707300133210.6478@asgard.lang.hm>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:34:55AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:

> yes, but this entire thread was an attempt to avoid browsing the history and 
> instead figure out the relationships between commits by dates. so the people 
> wanting this don't care how ugly it makes the history (but since they want 
> to do this in other people's repositories this won't work for them either)

I think we drifted a bit from that with Steffen's original message...

If you followed a strict policy of always merging topics to a "base"
branch as your first parent, then never allowing fast forwards should
allow a very easy-to-read history in gitk. The left-most line of commits
would simply be a record of topics getting merged in, and would never
contain any "non-base" commits.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-30  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-29 17:33 merge time Matthew L Foster
2007-07-29 23:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-29 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-30  1:11   ` Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30  1:27     ` david
2007-07-30  2:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-30  2:43       ` Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30  3:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-30  3:16           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-30  4:13             ` Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30 11:33             ` Sean
2007-07-30  3:57           ` Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30  6:10       ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-07-30  6:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-30  7:44           ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-07-30  7:49             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-30  8:09               ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-07-30  8:14                 ` Jeff King
2007-07-30  8:24                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-30  8:31                     ` Jeff King
2007-07-30  8:25                   ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-07-30  8:32                     ` Jeff King
2007-07-30  8:34                       ` david
2007-07-30  8:41                         ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-07-30 17:42                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-31 18:06                             ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-07-31 20:07                               ` david
2007-07-30 12:44 ` Rogan Dawes
2007-07-30 16:14   ` Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30 16:20     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-30 16:24       ` Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30 16:25     ` Rogan Dawes
2007-07-30 17:06       ` Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30 17:13         ` david
2007-07-30 21:57           ` Jakub Narebski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-30  2:28 Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30  3:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-30  4:10   ` Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30  4:17     ` david
2007-07-30 16:20       ` Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30 16:23         ` david
2007-07-30 17:11           ` Matthew L Foster
2007-07-30 17:33             ` david
2007-07-30 22:11             ` Robin Rosenberg

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