Re: Visualising stashed commits in gitk/qgit/giggle

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:38:35PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> Now that we have had git stash in master for a while, I've gotten
> completely addicted to it. :-) Before I used to create mini branches
> all the time, and my working repos were littered with 'WIP-nn'
> branches everywhere.
> 
> Which was mucky... but appeared in gitk/qgit transparently.
> 
> Is there any way to get them to appear in gitk or any other gui
> history browser?

The stash list is stored as a reflog, so any browser that understands
reflogs will visualize them fine. gitk's visualization of reflogs (gitk
-g) tends to be a bit cluttered, because it finds and displays the real
parents, which doesn't quite mesh with the reflog-ordered view of
history. You can try "gitk stash" to see the structure of the latest
stash, and you can try "gitk -g stash", but it's pretty unreadable.

You really need another way to get the refs into gitk's view without
using '-g'. You can do this: "gitk stash@{0} stash@{1} stash@{2}" which
looks OK, but doesn't scale for obvious reasons.

Tig actually displays reflogs nicely, because it has a much simpler
concept of viewing history. 'tig -g stash' will give you the stashes, in
order, for inspection.

Perhaps not the answer you were looking for, but it might give you a
start on implementing something. What kind of display were you looking
for? A view of the stashes as if they were a chain of commits (like tig
gives), or the stashes inserted into the full history graph (like gitk
stash@{0} stash@{1})?

-Peff