On Sunday, October 23, 2016 05:26:02 AM Philip Oakley wrote: > The ascii-art is done using the technique / tool of keyboard, hand/eye > coordination and mono-spaced editor ;-) [Unfortunately] > > As an aside, you will notice that most of the horizontal (left to right > history) graphs are not of real history, but are of carefully selected > examples designed to show some point, hence the hand-eye-brain coordination > requirement. > > Even the ascii --graph can be poor relative to a hand tweaked one. Now if > there were a way to add the right (that 'brain' input step) emphasis to -- > graph then that would be a good improvement - e.g. a criss-cross merge (see > 'git help merge-base').
(I'm not the op, and) I'm still learning git, but yesterday I was skimming (for another reason) man git log, and I saw some ASCII art diagrams--at the time, I assumed they could be generated by git. I haven't gone back to check, but I will at some point. They might have even been in the man git log section dealing with something like the criss-cross merge... I'm using git version 2.1.4 (on Debian Jessie).
