Re: qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Chris.Cheney venit, vidit, dixit 26.11.2009 22:54:
> My commit graph has a number of forks (I can't use the word "branches" 
> here) that are referenced only by a tag. Whereas gitk --all displays this 
> graph including those forks, qgit does not display those forks - I don't 
> see a way to make it do so, other than by adding branches to those tagged 
> commits. 
> 
> Have I overlooked something?
> 

qgit --all does it for me. It may not be the newest qgit, though.
I use tags like that to mark a version of a topic branch before
rebasing, so that on old version won't be gc'ed away and the branch name
space is not too crowded. Poor man's topgit, so to say. I guess it's a
common use case.

Michael