Re: [PATCH] rev-list: '--indent' oneline output

Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref] writes:

Summaries in oneline output are indented to show the location of
parents in merge commits. Indentation level is computed as the
smallest sum of parent locations along all paths that reach the
commit.

As a result, the output of
    git-rev-list --pretty=oneline --topo-order --indent
is formatted in a way that resembles merge summaries. All commits that
were pulled from a branch are indented with one additional space below
the summary of the merge commit.

I would have expected this kind of UI level tweak to be done not
as a rev-list feature, but the subject of the e-mail to read
something like "--pretty=oneline: allow indentation levels",
i.e. wouldn't the feature apply not just rev-list but also
git-log?