Showing branch hierarchy at the command line?

Question

I\'m curious if there is a way to show branch hierarchy on the command line? For instance if I use git branch, instead of seeing output like this:

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Answer 1

I want to complete the answer of @ctcherry.

I like when I can also see the user who did the commit and the date, so this is the following line to use :

git log --all --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit

However this is a pretty long line and difficult to memorize so you can use an alias. You just have to use this in your terminal :

git config --global alias.lg "HERE GOES MY BIG LOG COMMAND LINE"

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To summarize copy and paste the line below on your terminal:

git config --global alias.lg "log --all --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"

Then you will just have to use git lg to get your log history tree.

Example:

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