git-big-picture is a text-oriented visualization tool for Git repositories. Think of this software as a filter that removes uninteresting commits from a DAG modelling a Git repository and thereby exposes the big picture: for example the hierarchy of tags and branches. It’s a visualization tool that’s the equivalent to git branch.
Keep the map of the current repository open in a separate window which helps act as a memory aid.
git-big-picture supports convenience output options and can filter different classes of commits.
It uses the Graphviz utility to render images that are attractive. The graph operations are written in Python and output the graph-data in the easy-to-write Graphviz syntax. This is converted into an image using the Graphviz dot utility.
Key Features
- Supports various formats include SVG, PNG, PS, PDF and more.
- Open the image in an appropriate viewer.
- Supports history directions other than upwards.
- Allow including commit messages in node labels.
- Show/hide commits pointed to by branches.
- Show/hide commits pointed to by tags.
- Show/hide root commits.
- Include/do not include merge commits.
- Include/do not include bifurcation commits.
- Include/do not include commit messages on labels.
- Reduce image size using lossless zopflipng.
Website: pypi.org/project/git-big-picture
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Sebastian Pipping, Julius Plenz, Valentin Haenel, and others
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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