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Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer

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JEJan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
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Mar 6, 2008, 18:49 UTC
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On Mar 6 2008 19:24, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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>On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Jan Engelhardt 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.
>> 
>> Screenshot:
>> http://jengelh.hopto.org/other/git-forest.png
>> Program (perl):
>> http://dev.computergmbh.de/gitweb.cgi?p=hxtools;a=blob_plain;f=bin/git-forest
>> Top of file contains option overview.
>
>Nice.  Have you tested how it compares against tig (hit 'g'...)?
Yes, see above? :-) "tig's treeview" - that meant the 'g' key.

It just uses boring ascii, fails to display octopus merges and 'octoups branching', is limited to 'one branch' (e.g. no apparent way to pass --all to git-log/git-rev-list).

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