Unable to show a Git tree in terminal

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Killswitchcollective com s old article  30 June 2009  has the following inputs and outputs  git co master git merge  your branch  git push  upstream    A-B-C-D-E            A-B-C-D-E-F-G                           ---- gt                  your branch       C-D-E                        G   I am interested how you get the tree like-view of commits in your terminal without using Gitk or Gitx in OS X   How can you get the tree-like view of commits in terminal

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Keeping your commands short will make them easier to remember   git log --graph --oneline

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git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph   A visual tree with branch names included   Use this to add it as an alias  git config --global alias tree  log --oneline --decorate --all --graph    You call it with  git tree

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tig If you want a interactive tree  you can use tig  It can be installed by brew on OSX and apt-get in Linux  brew install tig tig  This is what you get

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A solution is to create an Alias in your  gitconfig and call it easily    alias      tree   log --graph --decorate --pretty oneline --abbrev-commit   And when you call it next time  you ll use   git tree   To put it in your    gitconfig without having to edit it  you can do   git config --global alias tree  log --graph --decorate --pretty oneline --abbrev-commit       If you don t use the --global it will put it in the  git config of your current repo

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How can you get the tree-like view of commits in terminal   git log --graph --oneline --all   is a good start   You may get some strange letters  They are ASCII codes for colors and structure  To solve this problem add the following to your  bashrc   export LESS  -R    such that you do not need use Tig s ASCII filter by  git log --graph --pretty oneline --abbrev-commit   tig      Masi needed this    The article text-based graph from Git-ready contains other options   git log --graph --pretty oneline --abbrev-commit     Regarding the article you mention  I would go with Pod s answer  ad-hoc hand-made output     Jakub Narebski mentions in the comments tig  a ncurses-based text-mode interface for git  See their releases  It added a --graph option back in 2007

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I would suggest anyone to write down the full command   git log --all --decorate --oneline --graph   rather than create an alias    It s good to get the commands into your head  so you know it by heart  i e  do not depend on aliases when you change machines

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