In the git community book, it says
Another interesting thing you can do is visualize the commit graph with the \'--graph\' option, like so:
The asterisks show where something was committed:
e1193f8
, 5a09431
and 30e367c
were committed to the left branch (yielding a |
on the right branch) whereas 420eac9
was committed to the right branch (yielding a |
on the left branch). And that is what 420eac9
does different from the rest: it's the only commit to the right branch.
For the sake of completeness:
d6016bc
was the branching point5e3ee11
is the merging commit2d3acf9
is the first commit after merging420eac9
is on a different branch than the 3 commits "below" it. The branches diverged after d6016bc
and they were merged in 5e3ee11
.