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Asked: 2026-05-11T22:20:13+00:00

Killswitchcollective.com’s old article, 30 June 2009 , has the following inputs and outputs git

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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
                 \        ---->               \
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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    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

    git log graph

    Regarding the article you mention, I would go with Pod’s answer: ad-hoc hand-made output.

    Jakub Narębski 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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