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Posted by Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

Reading the GIT Tree

Hi does anyone know of a tutorial that explains how to read the Git Tree - honestly I might as well be looking at double Dutch - I was ok until merging started occurring. I have completed the GIT Basics course on Treehouse and now working through Git Immersion - but all that says is that its tricky to read - an indeed the are correct.

2 Answers

John W
John W
21,558 Points
John W
John W
21,558 Points

Github has an OK interface for visualizing the Git "tree".

Personally I use GitX to visualize mine (on a mac). It is lightweight and free.

Scott Lundgren
PLUS
Scott Lundgren
Courses Plus Student 12,521 Points
Scott Lundgren
Scott Lundgren
Courses Plus Student 12,521 Points

In my .gitconfig I have in [alias]

hist = log --pretty=format:\"%h %ad | %s%d [%an]\" --graph --date=short