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From: Jerome Lovy <t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Puzzled by gitk patch representation for merge commits
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:14:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g4kpmu$9ga$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)

Hello,

I don't understand the graphical scheme that gitk uses when displaying 
patches for merge commits. I would like to be able to explain this to 
the people I'm trying to evangelize to git, because they are also 
puzzled when they try to check with gitk what a merge has done to a 
given file.

I can see that at least three graphical hints seem to be involved:
- font: regular/bold
- color: red/blue
(maybe there are more colors when the commit has more than two parents?)
- column for displaying the '+' or '-'

But I just don't see what is the respective semantics of these hints...

(I'm using git 1.5.5.1 if that matters.)

Thanks in advance,
Jérôme

             reply	other threads:[~2008-07-04  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-04  9:14 Jerome Lovy [this message]
2008-07-04 17:51 ` Puzzled by gitk patch representation for merge commits Jonathan Nieder

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