git tree-Unable to show a Git tree in terminal

Question

See 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 in knowing 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 the terminal?

Answer 1

You can try using:

git log --graph --oneline --all

is a good start.

You may get some strange letters. They are ASCII codes for colours and structure. To solve this problem add the following to your .bashrc:

export LESS="-R"

such that you do not need to use Tig's ASCII filter by

git log --graph --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit | tig   

The article text-based graph from Git-ready contains other options:

git log --graph --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit