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How can I get the graph of a multibranches Git revision history for which:

  • commits of one branch are gathered together ordered by date, and therefore
  • commits of all branches are are not ordered by date.

Illustration:

EXAMPLE 1                         EXAMPLE 2
BAD        BETTER                 BAD         BETTER
*          *                      | *        *
|\         |\                     | *        *
* |        | *                    * |        *
| *        | *                    * |        *
| *        | *                    * |        *
* |        | *                    * |        *
| *        | *                    * |        *
| *        | *                    * |        *
* |        * |                    | *        *
| *        * |                    * |        | *
| *        * |                    * |        | *
* |        * |                    * |        | *
|/         |/                     |/         |/ 
*          *                      *          *

This is slightly better for reading and understanding big graphs revision history.

I am looking this kind of display for:

  • git log
    • --graph will implicitly cause a --topo-order and solve the example 1
  • sourcetree
  • gitKraken.
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  • Doesn't `git log --decorate` do the thing you are asking for? What exactly is the question? – SantaClara Dec 09 '19 at 09:32
  • I can't reproduce the bad example with default options. But the better graphs may be displayed with `--topo-order`. – ElpieKay Dec 09 '19 at 09:35
  • Thx @Santa, indeed you are right for git log, --decorate does the job, at least for example 1 (I have not try for example 2 yet). Do you also have an idea for sourcetree or gitkaken or another maybe ? – Adrien Faucon Dec 09 '19 at 09:41
  • You can check [this discussion](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1838873/visualizing-branch-topology-in-git?answertab=active#tab-top). The thread has some more ideas apart from the ones you are specifically looking. – SantaClara Dec 09 '19 at 09:59

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