Re: text-based tree visualizer

>
>  On Mar 17 2008 21:40, Ping Yin wrote:
>  >>
>  >>  I spent the last two days writing a text-based tree visualizer;
>  >>  gitk is really convenient, but unfortunately it needs an X display,
>  >>  tigs tree view left me unimpressed, and I actually wanted a tool
>  >>  that does not read all commits in like gitk/tig do, but just gives me
>  >>  the treeview.
>  >>
>  >Here is my view
>  >║ ║ ║ ╟ Merge branch 'jk/portable'
>  >║ ║ ║ ╠═╗
>  >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ Merge branch 'py/submodule'
>  >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╗
>  >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp'
>  >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╗
>  >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'cc/help'
>  >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╗
>  >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ shortlog: do not require to
>  >║ ║ ║ ╟ ║ ║ ║ ║ Merge branch 'maint'
>  >║ ║ ║ ╠═╬═╬═╬═╬═╗
>  >
>  >It seems messed up.
>
>  It looks pretty normal. Once a vine-branch (║) branches off [a merge is
>  done in history], it stays in its column for the entire time. It is
>  different from gitk which moves branches to the left/right so that
>  there are less crossovers (╬) in gitk. But in git-forest that is
>  intentional.
>  Also note that ╬ is not a "go-everywhere" intersection --
>  see the top of the git-forest script and/or try --style=3 or =0
>  option to make it apparent:
>
>  │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │         │ │ Merge branch 'jk/portable'
>
> │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕       │ │
>  │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │       │ │ Merge branch 'py/submodule'
>  │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕     │ │
>  │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │     │ │ Merge branch 'db/diff-to-fp'
>  │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕   │ │
>  │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │   │ │ Merge branch 'cc/help'
>  │ ╞═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╪═╕ │ │
>  │ ├ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ shortlog: do not require to run from inside a git re
>
>  Or was it something else you meant to describe with being messed up?
>