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Re: A better git log --graph?

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John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Date
Jan 8, 2015, 11:59 UTC
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> wrote: [snip]

> I usually never use frontends. The notable exception is "tig" when I
> want to get a feeling of the status of several branches and/or "blame"
> some files. It haves a lot of typing. That being said, I tried gitk, but
> assumed it was also parsing --graph layout.

Try "gitk --date-order". I find it gives me the picture I really want to see. I've aliased it to "git k" in my gitconfig because I find it very valuable.

-John
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