graph: flatten edges that fuse with their right neighbor
When a merge commit is printed and its final parent is the same commit
that occupies the column to the right of the merge, this results in a
kink in the displayed edges:
* |
|\ \
| |/
| *
Graphs containing these shapes can be hard to read, as the expansion to
the right followed immediately by collapsing back to the left creates a
lot of zig-zagging edges, especially when many columns are present.
We can improve this by eliminating the zig-zag and having the merge's
final parent edge fuse immediately with its neighbor:
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|\|
| *
This reduces the horizontal width for the current commit by 2, and
requires one less row, making the graph display more compact. Taken in
combination with other graph-smoothing enhancements, it greatly
compresses the space needed to display certain histories:
*
|\
| * *
| |\ |\
| | * | *
| | | | |\
| | \ | | *
| *-. \ | * |
| |\ \ \ => |/|\|
|/ / / / | | *
| | | / | * |
| | |/ | |/
| | * * /
| * | |/
| |/ *
* |
|/
*
One of the test cases here cannot be correctly rendered in Git v2.23.0;
it produces this output following commit E:
| | *-. \ 5_E
| | |\ \ \
| |/ / / /
| | | / _
| |_|/
|/| |
The new implementation makes sure that the rightmost edge in this
history is not left dangling as above.
Signed-off-by: James Coglan <jcoglan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>