git-graph

Tool to create a graph from a git history showing tags, branches, stash nodes, cherry-picks.

Requirements

• Python3
• Graphiz (only to convert DOT format to an image)

Create a graph

Run the following inside a git directory to write a graph description (DOT format) to stdout.

./git-graph

On linux you can use the following command to create a graph.ps file

./git-graph | dot -Tps -o graph.ps

Or you can simply (the file extension must be an accepted command line option of the dot utility (see here)

./git-graph -o image.pdf

Example with range

./git-graph -r a51eced..HEAD | dot -Tps -o graph.ps

Parameters

• -v: to print info (or debug if provided twice) output to stderr
• -m: show commit messages in nodes
• -r range: to get a specific range of the repository. See here

Example Graph