Does any other tool have the persistence / order feature?

[bilbothebaggins]

I like git-graph. I like it a lot.

It does one thing I have not seen any git client do, and that is the model feature to control how the branches are laid out via the persistence and order options and of course the coloring of specific branches.

As a bit of a git noob that has to fight through the visualization of the mess that some of our repos are in, I find it rather fascinating that tools like Fork or Kraken or GitExtensions or even command-line git log simply do not seem to allow me basic visualization customization like git-graph does.

So ... I guess I wanted to ask the author whether the feature set of git-graph, or it's tagline "... visualize Git history graphs in a comprehensible way, following different branching models" was inspired by something in another tool, or by the lack therof in seemingly "all" other tools.

cheers!

[mlange-42]

Thanks, good to read that it helps people.

There is no other tool that I am aware of that does something similar. All the other tools not even respecting what was merged into what bothered me with their incomprehensible graphs. So this is why git-graph exists.

You may, however, want to take a look at git-igitt if you haven't seen it yet. It is an interactive TUI application based on git-graph. It lets you browse the history and view branches, commits and diffs. It is, however, still only for visualization. So you can't manipulate a repository using it.