[Haskell-cafe] A small Darcs anomoly

[Daniel Fischer]

On Tuesday 26 April 2011 16:04:55, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2011-04-26 15:51 +0200, Daniel Fischer wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 April 2011 15:35:42, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> > > How do you "see" how git branches are related to each other?
> > 
> > To some extent, you can see such a relation in gitk. For mercurial, hg
> > glog also shows a bit. I suppose there's also something to visualise
> > branches in bazaar, but I've never used that, so I don't know.
> > 
> > So, with gitk/glog, you can see that foo branched off bar after commit
> > 0de8793fa1bc..., then checkout/update to that commit [or bar's head],
> > checkout/update to foo's head/tip and compare.
> 
> No need to do a checkout; gitk can visualize any or all branches of the
> repository simultaneously.

Yes, at least if you're only interested in the genealogy.
When I think about how branches are related, I think of contents at least 
as much as of genealogy. Can gitk show the code next to each other?
I wouldn't be surprised, but I haven't yet found a way to do it (but I've 
only taken a couple of short looks, so that doesn't say much).