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Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> Summaries in oneline output are indented to show the location of
> parents in merge commits. Indentation level is computed as the
> smallest sum of parent locations along all paths that reach the
> commit.
>
> As a result, the output of
>     git-rev-list --pretty=oneline --topo-order --indent
> is formatted in a way that resembles merge summaries. All commits that
> were pulled from a branch are indented with one additional space below
> the summary of the merge commit.

I would have expected this kind of UI level tweak to be done not
as a rev-list feature, but the subject of the e-mail to read
something like "--pretty=oneline: allow indentation levels",
i.e. wouldn't the feature apply not just rev-list but also
git-log?