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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on gitk's memory footprint over linux-2.6.git
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Am 11/11/2011 13:44, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
>> However, I find it extremely annoying over the kernel tree, due to its
>> memory footprint. It is not the only thing I am running, (Chrome
>> Browser, Gnome3, Firefox, many gnome Terminal windows, emacs), and
>> given that I am looking at "just a couple of commits" I don't feel
>> opening a few gitk instances should be problematic... except that it
>> is.
> 
> Sometimes I do this:
>  % gitk master..branch_1 master..branch_2 ...
> 
> But as I visualize more branches, it becomes tedious.
> 
> It would be nice to have --base option, and show only the commits
> <base>..<branch>.

What's wrong with

     gitk master..branch_1 branch_2 branch_3 branch_4 branch_5
or
     gitk --branches --not master

? (I do that all the time.) Recall that 'master..branch_1' is short for
'^master branch_1'. It is sufficient to specify the negative ref, ^master,
only once.

-- Hannes