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Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:29:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by melete.silentflame.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8AC5B7F16C1; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:29:20 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: <83czbwziqp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:48:30 +0300") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:242658 Archived-At: Hello, On Thu 15 Sep 2022 at 07:48PM +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Sean Whitton >> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:18:13 -0700 >> >> Hello, >> >> On Thu 15 Sep 2022 at 08:33AM +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >> > So the difference is that what you want to see is all the branches up >> > to their HEAD, and not just branches merged into the current branch, >> > is that right? >> > >> > If so, I guess some optional feature of "C-x v L" could do that. >> > However, if the repository has many branches (and ours, for example, >> > does), wouldn't that make for a crowded and hard-t-read log buffer? >> > Perhaps asking the user for a name of one branch will be enough? More >> > than one branch could be problematic on display, I think. >> >> Not all branches, as indeed that would quickly become unreadable. The >> user has to say exactly which branches they would like to be included. >> And usually you wouldn't type more than two or three. > > I think 3 is already too much for the largely unidimensional display > we (and Git) provide. Fair enough, but I find it useful and Magit having this feature suggests others do too. -- Sean Whitton