Pretty git branch graphs

Question

I\'ve seen some books and articles have some really pretty looking graphs of git branches and commits. How can I make high-quality printable images of git history?

Answer 1

There's a funky Git commit graph as one of the demos of the Raphael web graphics library.

The demo is static, but it should be easy enough to take the code and swap out their static data for a live set of data -- I think it's just Git commit data in JSON format.

The demo is here: http://dmitrybaranovskiy.github.io/raphael/github/impact.html