Lyubomyr Shaydariv <[email protected]> writes:
> When log.showRootMark is set, root commits are marked with
> the at sign (@).
>
> When log.showRootMark is not set, root commits are marked with
> the asterisk sign (*). This is the default behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lyubomyr Shaydariv <[email protected]>
> ---
So the idea is when you have a history like this:
R1--A---B
\
R2--C---D---M
to show "git log --oneline --graph D B" like
* B
* A
@ R1
* D
* C
@ R2
because you cannot tell that between R1 and D there is no
parent-child relationship otherwise?
One downside of that approach is that it is not clear how this
feature should interact with --left-right. I do not think there is
a clean way to do that, unless you come up with a pair of symbols,
not just a single '@'.
Another way to show that there is no parent-child relationship
between R1 and D is to show it like this instead:
* B
* A
\
* R1
* D
* C
* R2
and that would work well with --left-right automatically (as you
would just do the same thing as you would to a normal asterisk).
