A better git log --graph?

Hi everyone,

git log --graph is hard for me to parse mentally when developing a project which has a lot of branches.

All the tools I've been using seem to just parse log --graph's output, and thus are no better at showing history.

I would love to have a graph mode where each branch is assigned a column, and stays there. If my log section shows the history of 3 branches, column 1 should always refer to master, 2 to the hypothetical "development" branch and 3 to "feature".

Of course the mode will waste more horizontal space, but it would be immediately more apparent which branch is merging into which.

I saw this idea proposed a couple of times in the mailing list, but I saw no "action" behind the proposal. Since I don't have time to work on it, has anyone already started some work that he would like to share as a starting point? Even just to have a felling if it's worth the effort.

Does anybody know of another tool to graph the history using something that is not based on git log --graph?

I've seen a couple of graphviz-based ones, but both failed to work out of the box for me.

Thanks a lot for any pointer.