From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Raible Subject: Re: [RFC] Colorization of log --graph Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20090318100512.GA7932@linux.vnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 18 17:54:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ljz2A-0006A9-0G for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:54:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755018AbZCRQw6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:52:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753866AbZCRQw5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:52:57 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56641 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753831AbZCRQw4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:52:56 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ljz0f-0005kj-7v for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:52:54 +0000 Received: from adsl-75-24-106-84.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([75.24.106.84]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:52:53 +0000 Received: from raible+git by adsl-75-24-106-84.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:52:53 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 75.24.106.84 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/1.0.154.48 Safari/525.19) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Allan Caffee gmail.com> writes: > > I know that _some_ people arn't particularly fond of colors, but I was > wondering how difficult it would be to colorize the edges on the > --graph drawn by the log command? It can be a little tricky trying to > follow them with a relatively complex history. I was thinking something > like gitk already does. Is anybody else interested in seeing this? > > ~Allan This may be clueless (I suspect that it is) but I have never understood the meaning of the different line colors in gitk. They seems arbitrary to me. I get that the current HEAD is represented as a yellow dot, but that's it. (As an aside, it might be nice if merges had a different color dot than normal commits). Can anyone clue me in? - Eric