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Re: git-draw - draws nearly the full content of a tiny git repository as a graph

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John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Date
Jan 30, 2014, 10:05 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Flo <sensorflo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I just want to present a small tool I wrote. I use it at work to have
> a tool visualizing the Git basic concepts and data structures which
> "are really really really simple" (Linus' words). That helps me
> teaching my colleagues about Git and answering their questions when
> Git did not behave as they expected.
>
> https://github.com/sensorflo/git-draw/wiki
Very nice!  Thank you!

I tried it on a couple of my test repos that I use when teaching people and it appears you need to munge branch names that contain hyphens in the generated dot file, or dot fails to parse the file.

Otherwise, it's a neat tool.  Thanks again!
-John
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  1. FloJan 29, 2014
  2. John SzakmeisterJan 30, 2014
  3. Stefan NäweFeb 3, 2014

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