Relationship between n git branches
branch, git, git-branch
Solution
You can give this a try:
git log --graph --all --decorate --simplify-by-decoration
It will only show commits that are branch heads or tagged.
Problem
If I have n git branches, how do I easily show the relationship between these branches? Basically I am interested in seeing a tree of a subset of all the branches in my repository. I am however not interested in all the intermediate commits. E.g.: My repository looks like this: ``` o---o--o A / / o--o--o--o--o--o B \ \ \ \ o--o C \ \ \ \ o--o--o--o--o--o D ``` But probably way more complicated. Now I want to see the relationship between branch A, C and D. Something along the lines of: ``` o A / o--o--o \ \ o---o C \ o--o D ``` Or an equivalent overview. Is this possible, and how? (A graphical tool will be just fine.) Solution Based on Antoine Pelisses answer, the below line seems to do (almost) exactly what I want: ``` git log --graph --decorate --oneline --simplify-by-decoration A B C ``` Update Mark Longair points out in his answer below that `gitk` accepts the same parameters as `git rev-list`, so it is possible to do: ``` gitk --simplify-by-decoration A C D ```