Re: visualizing Git's Git repo

> I'm a casual Git user.  One thing that's been troubling me about Git is 
> that when I look at Git's own Git repository, the revision history is not 
> at all easy to understand.  I like to view my own Git repositories with:
>
> $ gitk --all --date-order
>
> When I run this command, what I'm really asking is "give me a visual  
> summary of what's up with my project lately."  But with Git's  
> repository, there are far too many branches and merges for this view to 
> make any kind of visual sense.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1. what do you all do to get a high-level view of what's going on with  
> Git development?  do you use gitk?  if so, what options?