gitclientdirected-acyclic-graphs

DAG-oriented git browser?


There are git intros with pretty graphs to get your head around the concept of "git's history is just a DAG". I'm wondering why there are (seemingly) few visual git browsers that builds upon this exact model for representing the history.

Other than these, all of the visual git browsers (gitk, git-gui, GitX, etc.) push aside the graph to a narrow column in favor of textual information.

Is there a git repo browser that has the DAG view as the main feature? Any platform, any language, standalone, GUI/CUI doesn't matter.

I'm not looking to solve a specific problem at hand. Just hoping a radical tool may help me reach the git zen.

Edit: related but, in OP's view, different questions:

I'm looking for more than "a tool to generate a git history DAG"; like a web browser, this hypothetical "DAG-oriented git browser" should be able to view, search, jump and filter the history graph.


Solution

  • ungit is a new tool that I'd been waiting for for a while, one which lets you view and manipulate git repositories by dragging around nodes in the commit DAG.