Re: git log --graph with a sort of local revision number

You can achieve something close (on small repos, more on that later) with:

$ git log --graph --color \
  --format='%C(auto)changeset: %h:%H%nuser:      %an%ndate:      %ad%nsummary:   %s%n' \
  | git name-rev --refs=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD) --name-only --stdin

    * changeset: 5fa0f52:master
    | user:      Junio C Hamano
    | date:      Fri Aug 16 10:28:23 2019 -0700
    | summary:   Git 2.23
    |
    *   changeset: 8e0fa0e:master~1
    |\  user:      Junio C Hamano
    | | date:      Fri Aug 16 10:22:51 2019 -0700
    | | summary:   Merge tag 'l10n-2.23.0-rnd2' of git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po
    | | 
    | * changeset: a6cd2cc:master~1^2
    | | user:      Jiang Xin
    | | date:      Tue Jul 30 10:02:22 2019 +0800
    | | summary:   l10n: zh_CN: for git v2.23.0 l10n round 1~2

And in this case, since we are using HEAD to describe the commits by using --refs=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD), you can refer to a6cd2cc either as master~1^2 or HEAD~1^2.

Now, git-name-rev has some memory/performance problems in repos with a high number of references. Alban Gruin was working on this issue[1], but I don't know what's the status of it.

[1]:https://github.com/agrn/git/tree/ag/fix-name-rev-leak