From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: qgit question: tagged commits not on a branch Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:15:06 +0100 Message-ID: <4B0FECFA.9040307@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Chris.Cheney" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 27 16:16:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NE2YZ-0006Q7-2S for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:16:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753387AbZK0PQM (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:16:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753169AbZK0PQL (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:16:11 -0500 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:43515 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752793AbZK0PQL (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:16:11 -0500 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CE5C1A97; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:16:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:16:17 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=2T8gJpBIhsGJVKDwWdeIEfFdRnA=; b=upOOptZCsynZ0oyU11zLUfsxTqvSyFR6urL1wAzuI4VtnKCxQYYJj4B9wAdSGZPcXgD6PBdztQxLxUpN8ZtmQkg8sL262QApdA/HDRV0fjMtoQ+ih23vPCre58031yyIdWg/8TiyQzRCzCBq5qu+hOMhqVQBruf/dU50bKQPCX0= X-Sasl-enc: q+HcDIA46nKkFv5tAy+j7yOxCetzCP9qfW3je25om4bf 1259334977 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.12]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C78B376F0; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:16:16 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6pre) Gecko/20091127 Lightning/1.0b1pre Shredder/3.0.1pre In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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