From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 57807@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:29:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmfw1dbz.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83czbwziqp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:48:30 +0300")
Hello,
On Thu 15 Sep 2022 at 07:48PM +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
>> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-15 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-14 17:19 bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches Sean Whitton
2022-09-14 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14 22:42 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-15 5:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 16:18 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-15 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 22:29 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2022-09-14 19:17 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-14 22:44 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-15 6:59 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-15 16:15 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-15 17:27 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-15 22:29 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-16 6:59 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-18 21:48 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-19 6:42 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-20 22:54 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-21 18:52 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-21 19:39 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-22 6:39 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-22 16:10 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-22 18:44 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-22 21:20 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-23 6:42 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-23 16:34 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-24 19:20 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-24 19:57 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-24 23:18 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-25 7:29 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-26 22:33 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-27 18:59 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-28 1:15 ` bug#57807: vc-edit-next-command (was bug#57807: 29.0.50; Make vc-print-branch-log able to log multiple branches) Sean Whitton
2022-09-28 1:15 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-28 17:53 ` bug#57807: " Juri Linkov
2022-09-28 17:53 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-28 20:41 ` bug#57807: " Sean Whitton
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