hg view vs. hg glog

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Alpár Jüttner <alpar at cs.elte.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've read on this list that 'hg glog' uses a more sophisticated
> algorithm for visualizing the revision graph than 'hg view' does.
> Indeed, 'hg glog' can sometimes create a much narrower graph.
>
> However 'hg view' is much better in a very important aspect: it tends to
> put the heads on the top of the graph, while with 'hg glog' the tip is
> on the top (of course), but the additional heads tends to disappear
> somewhere below.
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to raise the heads to the top in 'hg glog', too?

hg glog currently walks the revs in commit order. It thus mimicks hg
log. Hence, I guess, its name. So I don't think this will change. But
I plan on looking into hg glog --merge to show only merge and head
nodes. This should help matters a bit.

-parren