I've seen some books and articles have some really pretty looking graphs of git branches and commits. How can I make high-quality printable images of git history?
Answer
Update: This answer has gotten far more attention than it deserves. It was originally posted because I think the graphs look nice and they could be drawn-over in Illustrator for a publication– and there was no better solution. But there now exists much more applicable answers to this Q, such as fracz's, Jubobs', or Harry Lee's! Please go upvote those!!
Update 2: I've posted an improved version of this answer to the Visualizing branch topology in git question, since it's far more appropriate there. That version includes lg3, which shows both the author and committer info, so you really should check it out. Leaving this answer for historical (& rep, I'll admit) reasons, though I'm really tempted to just delete it.
My 2¢: I have two aliases I normally throw in my ~/.gitconfig file:
[alias]
lg1 = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)' --all
lg2 = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold cyan)%aD%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)%n'' %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)' --all
lg = !"git lg1"
git lg/git lg1 looks like this:
and git lg2 looks like this:
