Visualizing branch topology in git
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I'm playing with git in isolation on my own machine, and even like that I find it difficult to maintain a mental model of all my branches and commits. I know I can do a git log
to see the commit history from where I am, but is there a way to see the entire branch topography, something like these ascii maps that seem to be used everywhere for explaining branches?
.-A---M---N---O---P
/ / / / /
I B C D E
\ / / / /
`-------------'
It just feels like someone coming along and trying to pick up my repository would have difficulty working out exactly what was going on.
I guess I'm influenced by AccuRev's stream browser...
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