Hi Uwe, (supplemental to Felipe's reply) Underlying the 'branch name' "problem" is the same conceptual shift that Git adopts for the separation of file names from the (blob) content.
By separating the metadata from the item, Git allows itself to pivot from being human centric (with all our insecurities..) to the hard logic computer centred view that doesn't care about names, so blobs aren't known by their file name [e.g. LICENCE, COPYING, EULA, README, etc] but instead use the hash of the content which stays fixed across renames and local naming choices. This makes the code "simpler" (less UI stuff). For 'branches', their names likewise become temporary meta-data artefacts that the computer (and hence the software logic that has to deal with it) does not care about. At best we (Git) allow the distinction between 'first parent' and other parents at a merge, but aren't concerned with where a branch started, especially if someone else started it, and hasn't merged it yet into a line of development we've looked at. (i.e. distributed development could bring with it some real collaboration and communication issues that we just side stepped - see Conway's Law vlog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY for thoughts on that) Philip On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 7:39:04 AM UTC o...@ucm.es wrote: > > > Hi > > Since I also use mercurial, one thing I am missing in git, when running > git log --graph > > Is a information, which commit belongs to which branch (an information > mercurial provides in named branches) > > However a solution is to use name-rev > > Like this > > git log --graph --color=always --all --since=2years --decorate --pretty | > git name-rev --annotate-stdin | less -R > > > And the resulting graph looks, at least for me, close enough to > mercurial's named branches. > > So I am wondering, is this name-rev information somewhere stored, or > calculated on the fly each time the command is called? > > Thanks and regards > > > Uwe Brauer > > > -- > Warning: Content may be disturbing to some audiences > I strongly condemn Putin's war of aggression against the Ukraine. > I support to deliver weapons to Ukraine's military. > I support the ban of Russia from SWIFT. > I support the EU membership of the Ukraine. > > https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail-conversation-view/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/d06abf34-3e76-461c-a523-da2ea067ecd9n%40googlegroups.com.
