Comprehensive Git Log with Visual Graph

[fs-michael-absin]

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What are you proposing?

A Dedicated, comprehensive Git Log + Graph, exactly same or better than IntelliJ's RustRover's/IntelliJ way to navigate branches, see their involved files, and see the list of commits per selected branch.

Why does this matter?

This is the most convenient way to investigate git mergers, easier to trace, easier to understand including for beginners, and most of all, easier to track, predict and understand when managing branches using git rebase strategy.

What problem does this solve?

• I want to immediately see sequence of commits of other branch (like branch2) - while I am on branch1 - NOT AVAILABLE
• I want to compare commits of base branch and current branch - why there's foreign commits included - NOT AVAILABLE
• When I select a few commits, all their combined changes will only show (excluding others) - NOT AVAILABLE
• Easily navigate between conflicting branches to help decide which code to retain/dump during git rebase code conflicts - NOT AVAILABLE
• The ability to solely do code review the isolated commits using this feature and get screenshots etc - while we are currently having current local changes on other branch - NOT AVAILABLE

What becomes easier or possible?

• As an engineer that hates bloated apps like Jetbrains, I still need to open JetBrains just for this purpose. Having this in Zed with a low memory footprint will become powerful.

Are there any examples or context?

• Jetbrains: IntelliJ, WebStorm, RustRover, Android Studio - all Jetbrains products have this amazing git log + graph feature

Possible approach

• There could be a dedicated item on the lower left part
• When we click that item, it will open in terminal side (lower centered) or in left panel. It shows all branches in local and in remote.
• When we click the branch, it will open a tab within the editor side - showing graph, the list of commits, the base branch commits, involved person, date, commit id etc
• When we click on specific commit, it will open another space rightside part showing the list of file changes
• When we click on each file changes, it will show on another tab/screen/ floating screen that shows the diff of code changes

It could be just for view purposes as starting point. And then any demand for automatic git related tasks can be added here.

• sukatoa

[vwkd]

Curious what's missing for you from the built-in Git Graph shipped in 0.231.1?