Re: [gitg] Question about gitg bahaviour in "All branches" mode

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

On 11/18/2010 11:14 PM, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> Dnia 18-11-2010 o godz. 22:29 Jesse van den Kieboom napisał(a):
>   
>> On 11/18/2010 09:56 PM, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
>>     
>>> Dnia 12-11-2010 o godz. 20:37 Marcin Zajączkowski napisał(a):
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Dnia 12-11-2010 o godz. 9:02 Guilhem Bonnefille napisał(a):
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010/11/11 Marcin Zajączkowski <mszpak wp pl>:
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I would like to consult one behaviour of gitg on my git repository I
>>>>>> don't understand. In "All branches" mode my master point with an arror
>>>>>> to some past commit [1] while it all should be in one line (in master
>>>>>> only view it looks ok). How it should be interpreted?
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> The arrow indicates that branch life line is really long and an
>>>>> ellipsis is better to clean the display. You can control this feature
>>>>> via preferences options.
>>>>>
>>>>> Interpretation of the current display is that master and appinfo-0.5.0
>>>>> are two long living parallel branches.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> They shouldn't.
>>>> When I manually check parents it looks ok. The problem could be that
>>>> "[maven-release-plugin] prepare release appinfo-0.5.0" and
>>>> "[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration" have the
>>>> same commit date. gitg displays it in reverse order (regarding to parent
>>>> chain).
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Do you think the same date could be a reason to display those two
>>> commits in a wrong order?
>>>   
>>>       
>> The order is not 'wrong'. I think it's simply the difference between
>> showing the revisions in topological order or not. There is a preference
>> for this in the preferences.
>>     
> Described behavior was with topological order disabled. When enabled 
> mentioned commits are in ascending order and there no additional arrow - 
> everything is as an one line (in all branches view).
> I don't know why topological order should matter in mentioned situation. 
> Two commits were made one by one in the same line (in the first commit 
> new tag was created, but I don't know if it should be a reason).
>   
Just look at the output of 'git log', which is what gitg uses. Look at
the dates in your repo, nothing is wrong, it's just sorted differently.
> anyway, it's not a big problem for me. I asked on the mailing list 
> because I suspected that something wrong is with my repository 
> (everything seems to be fine after check in the meanwhile) or there is 
> some bug in gitg. But if you think it's something from category "it's a 
> feature" then I won't dig it deeper.
>
>
> Thanks for given explanations
> Marcin
>
>
>
>   
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> <QOUTE>
>>>> commit c652c5721f24d7f9788cacbef0d0d975703bc522
>>>> 3d7f18d60d98f8643a33e8eed71080362cd7877e
>>>> Author: Marcin Zajaczkowski <szpak users sourceforge net>
>>>> Date:   Thu Nov 4 23:24:09 2010 +0100
>>>>
>>>>     docs clean up do 0.5.0
>>>>
>>>> commit 3d7f18d60d98f8643a33e8eed71080362cd7877e
>>>> 5a4866fac3129b5dc78bb7a7cd4e3a2a9fb5da0b
>>>> Author: Marcin Zajaczkowski <szpak users sourceforge net>
>>>> Date:   Thu Nov 4 22:09:17 2010 +0100
>>>>
>>>>     [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration
>>>>
>>>> commit 5a4866fac3129b5dc78bb7a7cd4e3a2a9fb5da0b
>>>> 5617ad5a24a040f2f28de1ac1dc9a816446ef75c
>>>> Author: Marcin Zajaczkowski <szpak users sourceforge net>
>>>> Date:   Thu Nov 4 22:09:17 2010 +0100
>>>>
>>>>     [maven-release-plugin] prepare release appinfo-0.5.0
>>>>
>>>> commit 5617ad5a24a040f2f28de1ac1dc9a816446ef75c
>>>> 1c33c279c912242bd1ed67881e1935493ac20214
>>>> Author: Marcin Zajaczkowski <szpak users sourceforge net>
>>>> Date:   Thu Nov 4 22:05:23 2010 +0100
>>>>
>>>>     revert version in pom to 0.5.0-SNAPSHOT
>>>> </QUOTE>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> I you have doubt about the understanding of the history made by gitg,
>>>>> I suggest you to use another Git browser (like gitk). By this way, you
>>>>> will be able to double check your history.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Today I checked out mentioned repo [1] using TortoiseGit and there is
>>>> everything in one line in "all branches mode":
>>>> http://picturepush.com/+IvY8
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could it be an issue with the same date?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] - git://appinfo.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/appinfo/appinfo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Marcin
>>>>
>>>>         
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