Showing Git branch structure

Question

Is there a way to show only the branch structure in Git? There are a number of tools that show the commits graphically, but in my case the list is so long that it\'s impossi

Answer 1

Perhaps what you want is --simplify-by-decoration option, see git log documentation:

--simplify-by-decoration

     Commits that are referred by some branch or tag are selected.

So it would be

git log --graph --simplify-by-decoration --all

or following VonC answer

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