git log --graph in the face of vendor imports

[Philip Paeps]

On 2020-12-27 18:23:02 (+0800), Ulrich Spörlein wrote:

> On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 09:22:59 +0800, Philip Paeps wrote:
>> On 2020-12-26 18:22:57 (+0800), Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2020-12-26 at 11:29:41 +0800, Philip Paeps wrote:
>>>> I have this alias to make `git log --graph` meaningful:
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>> [alias]
>>>>         llog = log --graph
>>>> --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%h%C(red)%d%Creset %s %C(blue)- %an,
>>>> %ar%Creset'
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> I noticed that in our repository, the graph shifts farther to the
>>>> right
>>>> with each vendor import.  Is this expected behaviour?
>>>
>>> Yes. Fun fact: the right combination of format flags makes git
>>> segfault!
>>
>> Oh good.  It's not just me for once. ;-)
>>
>> Though I haven't managed to make it segfault yet.  I'm sure it's only 
>> a
>> matter of time.
>>
>> I just wanted to make sure that the "drifting to the right" was
>> expected.  It looks odd.
>>
>> Philip
>
> log --graph is probably useless for the FreeBSD repo, as we don't have 
> any other development branches other than main. Stable and co are just 
> receiving cherry-picks and vendor branches don't see any "development" 
> per se.

I really use my 'llog' alias more as a shortcut for 'log 
--pretty=oneline' than out of genuine interest in the graph. :)

> Only merges between user/projects and main would be of interest, but 
> they are littered with "IFC" merges and make everything a thousand 
> times worse, so I'm not recording all those IFCs as merges.

That makes sense.  There's a lot of crazy stuff in our history.

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises