What does "(*)" mean in the commits log?

[jbrains]

Hi, folks. I just noticed "(*)" on some of my commits in the Commits log. I tried to search for an answer, but I guess "(*)" is a difficult string to search for. :) What does this asterisk signify about a commit?

[stefanhaller]

This is very new on master. It means that there is some other branch head pointing to this commit (including your upstream, if you have one). If you press + to expand the commits panel, you can see the full names of these branches; the asterisk is meant to be an abbreviation of that.

It's one step on a longer journey to support stacked branches better. With stacked branches it's important to see where one branch ends and the next one starts. This doesn't work very well on master yet, but will soon; see #2552 (and #2527).

[jesseduffield]

I should mention that we already by default only show the branch visualisation in the expanded view and I've opted in to also showing it in the compact view but it's not something I'd want to enable by default given how much space that visualisation takes up.

[stefanhaller]

OK, happy to make a PR if you tell me what config name to use for this, and which section it should go in.

[jesseduffield]

I'm thinking gui.experimentalShowBranchHeads (boolean). experimental because we may land on a solution that's less about showing all branch heads and more about showing relevant branch heads, which would lead to a more appropriate name.

[stefanhaller]

#2582

[jesseduffield]

This is now addressed in https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/tag/v0.38.1. Thanks @stefanhaller for the PR