How do I open the commit graph view?

[csntr]

I went through the menu of every panel and I couldn't find how to view the whole repo in that nice graph as it is shown in the features section of the github page. I was on latest lazygit 0.40.2

[stefanhaller]

It's in the "View log options" menu (c-l) in the commits panel.

Note that lazygit currently doesn't remember the value when you change it there. If you always want to have the graph on, add

git:
  log:
    showGraph: always

to your lazygit config file.

There is a PR open to get rid of the config and have lazygit remember the value (#3197), but unfortunately it has stalled.

BTW, personally I feel the graph should be shown by default; what's the reason again why it isn't, @jesseduffield?

[csntr]

nice thank you! 🙏

[jesseduffield]

The default is to show the graph when the commits view is maximised. The reason for this is that some repos have graphs that take up a load of space. For example, here's kubernetes:

With graph

Without graph

But, given that both @stefanhaller and myself have set our own config to always show the graph, and given you're asking how to enable this @csntr, we should just always show the graph by default

[byteZorvin]

How to maximise the commits view

[stefanhaller]

By pressing +. But note that the comments above are out of date, we now show the graph always, not only when maximized (by default, that is; you can still change this with a config).