[PATCH 00 of 10] graphmod/graphlog refactoring; linear run suppression in glog

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman<dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 15:02, Peter
> Arrenbrecht<peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for integrating them, though alas they kind of lose their point
>> w/o patch 9. Also, I think patch 9 changes rather little that affects
>> the normal code path. The bulk of the changes is the new code for the
>> --collapse option, which shouldn't affect normal glog. So there is
>> little danger of breakage in existing functionality.
>
> I figured there were also benefits relating to your pbranch stuff, and
> that the graph-walking code should now be more pluggable?
>
> Sure, there's not much there on the normal code path, but I wouldn't
> want to put a new code path in there without reviewing it, and I
> unfortunately won't have time for that today. I'm also not sure about
> the usefulness of the linear-run idea in the common case (I don't use
> glog all that much myself, anyway; I usually prefer to look at the
> hgweb graph instead).

I see. I use it regularly to get an overview of merge history. Jesper
seemed to like the idea for bitbucket, too.
-parren