From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "psantosl@codicesoftware.com" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GitJungle is out! Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:42:28 +0100 Message-ID: <4D079E74.10408@codicesoftware.com> References: <4D05FF8D.7080306@codicesoftware.com> <4D079155.4020102@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?David_Su=E1rez?= To: Michael Haggerty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 14 17:42:38 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSXxV-0003tZ-AM for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:42:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759532Ab0LNQmc (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:42:32 -0500 Received: from berith.lunarbreeze.com ([216.97.239.175]:54065 "EHLO berith.lunarbreeze.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759560Ab0LNQmb (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:42:31 -0500 Received: from 102.red-83-33-14.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.33.14.102] helo=[192.168.2.33]) by berith.lunarbreeze.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSXxN-0006Jm-7Z; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:42:29 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: <4D079155.4020102@alum.mit.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - berith.lunarbreeze.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - codicesoftware.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Michael, The commits are walked from the heads, starting on master. Once a commit is assigned to a branch, it stays there. So the diagram would have a different aspect if the heads were walked in a different order. David (in CC) is the one to ask for details, he's still struggling to get a better render than what we have right now. Thanks, pablo On 12/14/2010 16:46, Michael Haggerty wrote: > On 12/13/2010 12:12 PM, psantosl@codicesoftware.com wrote: >> We've just released GitJungle >> [...] The drawing approach we use is a little bit >> different from what other git tools are using: we draw horizontally >> instead of vertically, we think it is a better way but, you know, it is >> probably a matter of preference. > > Given that git doesn't permanently record the branch that a commit was > first made on, how do you decide on what row to draw a commit? E.g., if > I have two branches A and B that share a common ancestor > > o-o <- A > / > o-o-o > \ > o-o <- B > > how do you decide whether to draw the ancestor on the row for A vs. the > row for B? > > Michael >