Re: How to restrict gitk to show only branch/merge commits?

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:

> I would like gitk to show me only the heads, branch-points and
> merge-points of branches.
> 
> For example, given a history like this:
> 
>                    d...e--F--g...h--H
>                   /        \
>  a1--a2...an--b--C          N--o...p--P
>                   \        /
>                    i...j--K--l...m--M
> 
> I would like to see only
> 
>  - a1     because it has no parent
>  - C,F,K  because they are reachable from multiple heads
>  - N      because it has multiple parents
>  - H,M,P  because they are heads
> 
> Ideally, there would be a possibility to add some "context" to the
> list of commits to be shown: with $context==1, all the commits shown
> in the above history would be shown, but the commits indicated by
> the triple-dots would be omitted.
> 
> The reason is that I have some repositories with several really long
> linear history.  It is hard to get a global overview about the branch
> history if you have to scroll constantly.
> 
> Is something like that possible with gitk?

I am not sure if it would give you exactly what you want, but if I
understand correctly gitk accepts arguments for git-log (and you can
set them somewhere in options, too).  Take a look at section "History
Simplification" in git-log/git-rev-list manpage, in particular at
option '--simplify-by-decoration' there.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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