Re: gitk screenshots of complex history

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 12:13:01AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

I've mentioned both on list and on #git that one of my production
repositories has a few weird points in time.  Some folks have asked
to see at least screenshots of the line part of the gitk output,
as apparently they've never seen ugly history in Git.  Lucky them.

The images are rather large so I have posted them on my website
with a bit longer explanation of each:

  http://www.spearce.org/2007/07/difficult-gitk-graphs.html

OK, no more screenshots from *that* repository!  I don't ever want
to run `gitk --all` there again.  Ever.

Were those graphs generated with --topo-order (the default) or
--date-order?  I've found complex history usually looks a lot more
manageable with --date-order.  Certainly the Git history is a LOT less
wide with --all --date-order than --all.

Does this help your situation as well?

-bcd