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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [announce] text-based tree visualizer
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:24:58 +0100 (CET)
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Hi,

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> I spent the last two days writing a text-based tree visualizer; gitk is 
> really convenient, but unfortunately it needs an X display, tigs tree 
> view left me unimpressed, and I actually wanted a tool that does not 
> read all commits in like gitk/tig do, but just gives me the treeview.
> 
> Screenshot:
> http://jengelh.hopto.org/other/git-forest.png
> Program (perl):
> http://dev.computergmbh.de/gitweb.cgi?p=hxtools;a=blob_plain;f=bin/git-forest
> Top of file contains option overview.

Nice.  Have you tested how it compares against tig (hit 'g'...)?

Ciao,
Dscho