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📣 fctorial

Git client for large dozen branch repos


The log view of git gui tools I've used are unusable for large git repos with many dozen branches. This is how `nixpkgs` repo looks in tig: https://gist.github.com/fctorial/9cf4b4569dc8c085059dd7cb8cf1ef59

What git gui client you use on large git repos if you want to find, say, how two branches are related?


  👤 blcArmadillo Accepted Answer ✓
Not a git gui client but you can do this via the command line with: git merge-base . This will give you their common ancestor.

You can also get something similar to the tig output but for specific branches via the command line using a command like: git log --graph --oneline .