Feature Request: Graph history view

[rlabrecque]

Just testing the waters on this one but, one thing that I'm missing from all of the more 'advanced' clients is essentially git log --graph.

This would just display all branches in one history view, with a nice little DAG graph showing how the repo fits together.

Pretty much like this:

(Taken from Stack Overfloew: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9074343)

(SourceTree)

[mshahat]

Would that be considered related to the Comparison Graph in the current non beta version ? I can't see as part of the current beta ?

[rlabrecque]

I guess so, sort of, could you only select two branches in the native version though? Having it vertical and tied to the actual commits is quite a bit nicer too though.

[b1rdex]

IMO, full tree is too complex and we should decide the main reason to add this feature.
Native desktop had this:

These was pretty neat feature in GitHub Desktop and I used to it.
Main differencies between this and native git log --graph:

• comparing two branches — very easy to see if branch is outdated
• action to merge from original branch
• local commits (not pushed) are marked and notable

[mshahat]

This simple Comparison Graph was very usable, and is definitely something you'd want to make sure is there. It's a good compromise than the overwhelming Git graph.

Cheers,

[joshaber]

Thanks for the suggestion!

This idea is interesting for the future, but this is beyond the scope of our current roadmap.

I'm going to add the future-proposal label to this issue and close it out, so that we don't get overwhelmed with our backlog! We'll revisit these as part of our next planning session.

[mikeytag]

@joshaber I know you're kicking the can on this one, but I find this feature one of the most valuable features of the earlier native Desktop version. As such, are there plans to deprecate or make the earlier versions not work? I'm hoping not so I can keep using the earlier version until the visual branch makes it into the new release.

Please note, I'm not trying to be a jerk about this. I love GitHub and really enjoy the Desktop experience. I've just settled into workflows that the visual branch really helps with.

[shiftkey]

@mikeytag check out our roadmap for 1.1 - we want to tackle the relationship between the current branch and some other context. We're still thinking more on this, but our learnings from the classic apps and the comparison graph will help us here.