View your Git repository as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)

Git is by far the most popular version control system.

However learning or teaching Git can seem daunting because of its impressive number of commands.

As Git is very lightweight, a good practice to better grasp the impact of a git command is to quickly setup a test project and experiment the effects of the command on it.

Git-graph is a git plugin written in Python that displays your git repository's inner content as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). This visual representation of git internal data before and after each command considerably improves the learning curve.

install git-graph

pip install git-graph

run git-graph

git graph git graph -p examples/demo -n btc -f svg

run python module in interpreter

cd git_graph python

import dot_graph as dg dg.DotGraph('..').persist(conceal=True) dg.DotGraph('../examples/demo', nodes='btc').persist(form='svg', conceal=True)

run python program

python git_graph/dot_graph.py python git_graph/dot_graph.py -p examples/demo -n btc -f svg

run python program with shebang

./git_graph/dot_graph.py ./git_graph/dot_graph.py -p examples/demo -n btc -f svg