Re: Gitk strangeness..

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> I think the best thing to do is to change git-rev-list.  One
> possibility would be to add an option to make git-rev-list omit
> parents that are not in the requested set, which would mean that gitk
> would not draw the open-circle commits any more.

I love the open circles. I often want to know what the previous commit 
was. For example, I use gitk mainly for "gitk ORIG_HEAD..", and then I see 
the thing that the newly merged stuff was based on (ie was it a major 
release, or some random point).

> The other option would be to make git-rev-list list the open-circle
> commits explicitly, with an indication that they are not in the
> requested set but are parents of commits in the requested set.

Hmm. That shouldn't be hard to do, but what would be syntax be?

		Linus