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by PeterWhittaker 4196 days ago
Summary: Author created a Stash-based visualization tool that takes the output of git log --graph --oneline --decorate --all and renders a pretty diagram.

Quite nice, actually. Not open source, as it is a private side project of the company, but examples are available on GitHub (cf TFA).
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teunduynstee 4195 days ago
It actually doesn't take the output of 'git log' at all. That output is visualized by many other libraries already (nicer, frankly). What I have done is create a completely different graph, inspired by the chart presented with git-flow by Vincent Driessen (http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/).

Main difference is that the develop and master branch always run all the way to the top. Take any public Github repo and compare the output of beta.gitflowchart.com/ with the git-log output. It is not the same thing.

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PeterWhittaker 4195 days ago
Ah, OK, thanks. That wasn't clear to me from the article, but then, I was likely skimming and not reading in detail.
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