Derrick Stolee <sto...@gmail.com> writes: > I hit this very situation recently when I was experimenting with > 'git fast-import' and accidentally created many parallel, independent > histories. Running "git log --graph --all --simplify-by-decoration" > made it look like all the refs were in a line, but they were not. > (The one way I knew something was up: the base commits also appeared > without a decoration. That was the only clue that the histories did > not continue in a line.) > >> >> and the fact that B and A do not share parent-child relationships is >> lost. An easy way to show that would be to draw the bottom three >> lines of the full history output we saw earlier: >> >> | * e6277a9 C >> | * 13ae9b2 B >> * afee005 A >> >> either with or without the vertical bar to imply that A may have a >> child. > The natural extension of this would be multiple columns: > > | | | | | * > | | | | * > | | | * > | | * > | * > *
After sleeping over it, I now think we shouldn't draw lines that imply a child for each of these commits, as we haven't seen, but I agree that this can be extended to 3 or more roots.
