Re: [Q] Abbreviated history graph?

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brian Foster
> <brian.foster@innova-card.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>  A colleague and I recently wanted to examine the
>>  history in a broad sense without worrying too much
>>  about the individual commits.  What we (think we)
>>  wanted is a 'gitk --all' history graph showing only
>>  "named" historical points; i.e., tags and branch
>>  HEADs, perhaps with an indication of whether or not
>>  it's a "linear" change sequence that leads from one
>>  to another.  That is, hypothetically, if the history
>>  looks something like (where 'A' &tc has a name as
>>  per above, and '*' does not):
>>
>>     A--->*--->*--->C--->D--->*----->E
>>      \                   \         /
>>       \->*-->B            \->*--->*--->F
>>
>>  What we wanted to see is something like:
>>
>>     A------>C--->D--->E
>>      \       \       /
>>       \->B    \-----/--->F
>>
>>  Is there some way of doing something similar to that
>>  (git v1.6.0.2)?  In addition to 'gitk', we also (rather
>>  quickly!) tried both 'qgit' and 'giggle', but without
>>  any apparent success.
>
> Not in git.git but you can use the script at the bottom (also attached
> in case it is whitespace damage).
> It could be much faster if "git log" stops when finding a tag/branch.
>