Visualizing branch topology in git

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Published on 2009-12-03T09:55:04Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 12:13 UTC
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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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