From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Steinbrink Subject: Re: visualizing Git's Git repo Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 02:41:32 +0200 Message-ID: <20080527004132.GA6400@atjola.homenet> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Joshua Haberman X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 27 02:42:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K0nGm-0002xe-DW for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 02:42:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753957AbYE0Alh convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 20:41:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753946AbYE0Alh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 20:41:37 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:44476 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753894AbYE0Alg (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 20:41:36 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 May 2008 00:41:34 -0000 Received: from i577BA983.versanet.de (EHLO atjola.local) [87.123.169.131] by mail.gmx.net (mp029) with SMTP; 27 May 2008 02:41:34 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5039886 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/rRi90NW7rogffhPJcRSGS2Al/R6cIwmGnK0lnQB d+DjKr0g0st0WW Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2008.05.26 13:47:33 -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote: > I'm a casual Git user. One thing that's been troubling me about Git = is=20 > that when I look at Git's own Git repository, the revision history is= not=20 > at all easy to understand. I like to view my own Git repositories wi= th: > > $ gitk --all --date-order > > When I run this command, what I'm really asking is "give me a visual = =20 > summary of what's up with my project lately." But with Git's =20 > repository, there are far too many branches and merges for this view = to=20 > make any kind of visual sense. > > So my questions are: > > 1. what do you all do to get a high-level view of what's going on wit= h =20 > Git development? do you use gitk? if so, what options? Doesn't make much sense with --all, but if you only view one branch, eg= =2E origin/master or origin/next, --no-merges might produce an output that'= s more suitable for you. Bj=F6rn