Re: FFmpeg considering GIT

On 2007-05-05 10:26:12 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

The "-S" thing doesn't really interact well with "gitk", because it
doesn't rewrite the parent information (it is basically just a "hide
commits that don't pass this criteria"). As such, gitk, which
requires parent information to generate the graph, is not very
amenable to using "-S" and such.

That said, you can apply this fairly trivial patch to "gitk" to make
it parse the output of "git log" rather than "git rev-list", and
that will actually get you working -S'xyz' parsing automatically.
It's just that the commit history window will look like crap.

OK, now I've tested it, and just as you said, it works (and is _very_
useful) but looks like crap. :-)

Is there any fundamental reason why

  gitk -- some/path/name

generates a nice, connected graph, while

  gitk -S'some string'

generates disconnected spaghetti? Or could the latter be made to use
the same parent-rewriting logic as the first?

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