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An arrow story

Saturday, February 04, 2012 Pablo Santos 1 Comments

Well, a few weeks ago someone posted some comments from the Mercurial folks about our (and Git's) recursive merge strategy. I covered it a few days ago here.

Interestingly, some people argued that the way in which we render the branches in the branch explorer (merge links pointing from source to destination) is not correct. I really don't care about how correct it is since I don't feel like teaching graphs theory on a daily basis, but we do always listen :P.

This is basically how the Branch Explorer renders branches and commits (changesets):

And well, in Plastic SCM 4.1 (it is ready down here and soon will be published under "labs" for the impatient among you) there's a hacker hidden option: 
edit branchexplorer.cfg

and add:

display.options.dag_mergelinks=true
and then you'll see:

Which, ok, well, whatever, I guess it has its own audience! :P

Vertical

4.1 features the long awaited, begged, proposed and requested "2D version tree feature" that I'm not unveiling today... :P And together with it it comes the possibility to render your branch explorer... vertically... up means newer.

All credits to Mr. Daniel Peñalba! :P

Enjoy!

Pablo Santos
I'm the CTO and Founder at Códice.
I've been leading Plastic SCM since 2005. My passion is helping teams work better through version control.
I had the opportunity to see teams from many different industries at work while I helped them improving their version control practices.
I really enjoy teaching (I've been a University professor for 6+ years) and sharing my experience in talks and articles.
And I love simple code. You can reach me at @psluaces.

Pablo Santos

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