Unable to show a Git tree in terminal
console, git, revision-history, terminal, tree
Solution
How can you get the tree-like view of commits in terminal?
git log --graph --oneline --all
is a good start.
You may get some strange letters. They are ASCII codes for colors and structure. To solve this problem add the following to your `.bashrc`:
export LESS="-R"
such that you do not need use Tig's ASCII filter by
git log --graph --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit | tig // Masi needed this
The article text-based graph from Git-ready contains other options:
git log --graph --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
Regarding the article you mention, I would go with Pod's answer: ad-hoc hand-made output.
Jakub Narębski mentions in the comments tig, a ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. See their releases. It added a `--graph` option back in 2007.
Problem
Killswitchcollective.com's old article, 30 June 2009, has the following inputs and outputs ``` git co master git merge [your_branch] git push upstream A-B-C-D-E A-B-C-D-E-F-G \ ----> \ your branch C-D-E G ``` I am interested how you get the tree like-view of commits in your terminal without using Gitk or Gitx in OS/X. How can you get the tree-like view of commits in terminal?