Creating a custom Git flow visualization

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Post by cwebbdesign » Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 3:09 PM UTC

Creating a custom Git flow visualization
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Re: Creating a custom Git flow visualization

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Post by PeterWhittaker » Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 9:45 PM UTC

Summary: Author created a Stash-based visualization tool that takes the output of git log --graph --oneline --decorate --all and renders a pretty diagram.

Quite nice, actually. Not open source, as it is a private side project of the company, but examples are available on GitHub (cf TFA).

Re: Creating a custom Git flow visualization

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Post by daviross » Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 11:22 PM UTC

This looks really slick. I've seen some good and not-so-good visualizations of git log --graph --decorate --all (I always end up mapping this to 'git map'), and this looks nicely clean.

My biggest question though, is on the Github permissions. It requires read/write access on all user data (and public repositories), but I'd expect read access being all that's required.

Re: Creating a custom Git flow visualization

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Post by davvid » Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 11:50 PM UTC

[shameless plug] git-cola/git-dag[1] can do this kind of visualization[2], and you can interact with the nodes too (checkout files, diff, etc).

[1] https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola

[2] https://git-cola.github.io/screenshots.html

Re: Creating a custom Git flow visualization

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Post by heinrich5991 » Wed, Dec 17, 2014, 12:12 AM UTC

If you're looking for something that can do this in the command line, check out `tig`. It also supports blames, etc.

Re: Creating a custom Git flow visualization

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Post by idlemind » Wed, Dec 17, 2014, 12:32 AM UTC

Very nice, I've always been dissatisfied with most visualisations of real git repos using git flow. It's really hard to explain to non-devs the state of the branches, ideally the roadmap to the next release would be glanceable.

We're looking to build an AtlasBoard for our project and the ideas here are very useful. We use bitbucket, so I'm not sure how similar the APIs there are to Stash, but one would hope they are similar enough that your code points us in the right direction.

Re: Creating a custom Git flow visualization

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Post by cmpb » Wed, Dec 17, 2014, 3:52 AM UTC

This is the area where I feel that Atlassian's SourceTree really shines. It is still an effective tool for manipulating git with a GUI, but the git branching display is insanely useful.

Re: Creating a custom Git flow visualization

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Post by yskchu » Wed, Dec 17, 2014, 7:55 AM UTC

cmpb wrote: post #7

This is the area where I feel that Atlassian's SourceTree really shines. It is still an effective tool for manipulating git with a GUI, but the git branching display is insanely useful.

Thanks for highlighting it, just downloaded... it's even free!

https://www.atlassian.com/software/sourcetree/overview

Re: Creating a custom Git flow visualization

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Post by me_bx » Wed, Dec 17, 2014, 12:14 PM UTC

Funny that the library is not open source, but still they do host it on a public github repo. Doesn't make much sense to me, and there should be some clarifications on what is authorized and what is not.

Github is "Free for open source projects", I have always wondered what definition they would use for "open source". Looked for it a few years ago, and didn't find it. Any clue on what's acceptable policy for them? Maybe they consider that public repo = open source, because code is accessible?

Re: Creating a custom Git flow visualization

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Post by teunduynstee » Wed, Dec 17, 2014, 12:46 PM UTC

me_bx wrote: post #9

Funny that the library is not open source, but still they do host it on a public github repo. Doesn't make much sense to me, and there should be some clarifications on what is authorized and what is not. Github is "Free for open source projects", I have always wondered what definition they would use for "open source". Looked for it a few years ago, and didn't find it. Any clue on what's acceptable policy for them? Ma…

Hi, I am the author of the library on Github.

First of all, Github is not free for Open Source, it is free for public projects (https://github.com/pricing). Not just for OSS, if the repo is public, it is free.

Is Git Flow Chart Open Source? No, it is not. Choosing an OSS license would make it hard to make money on the plugin. On Atlassians marketplace, this means that if your project is OSS, you get it for free, but if you are a paying user of Stash, you also pay for the plugin. We want to follow the same lines with Github: public repos are free, so you can use the chart on them for free. If you pay for a private repo at GitHub, for now, you cannot use the chart. We may make it available, but at a cost. However, we do want to share the code and allow you to inspect, study and contribute improvements. The core code of Git Flow Chart is hosted on GitHub. It is a javascript library and comes with unit tests and a standalone HTML page that allows you to test improvements locally. Feel free to fork.