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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by timhh on Monday March 03, 2025 @07:54AM (#43241274)
I meant any variation of `git log --graph`.
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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by rectang on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:21AM (#43265275)
Well, then I simply don’t agree that `git log --oneline --graph` is “really, really bad”.

Clunky? Sure, but it suffices to visualize simple branching patters. And no visualizer suffices for gnarly graphs (like a long-lived topic branch that has repeatedly merged in upstream), because the building a mental model of a complex history is difficult even if you can see it.

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