danpeirce / git-graph

Tool to create a graph from a git history

git-graph

Tool to create a graph from a git history showing tags, branches, stash nodes, cherry-picks. Forked repository to make small changes for Windows 10. Original was geared to linux. The changes were minor.

Requirements

• Python3
• Graphiz

Create a graph

Run the following inside a git directory to write a graph description to stdout.

python git-graph.py

On Windows 10 you can use the following command to crate a graph.png file

python git-graph.py | dot -Tpng -o graph.png

Example with range

python git-graph.py -r a51eced..HEAD | dot -Tpng -o graph.png

Parameters

• -x: to print debug output to stderr
• -m: show commit messages in nodes
• -r range: to get a specific range of the repository. See here

Example Graph