gitk has some useful options, so make sure you read the man pages. Of most interest is
gitk --all That is really handy for seeing the branches relative to eachother. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Leonardo Petry <leonardo.petry...@gmail.com > wrote: > I tried gitk today and got blown away that I completely missed this. It > helps me understand the current state of my local branch in a way I > couldn't before. Many Thanks. > > > On Monday, May 12, 2014 10:57:06 PM UTC-4, charlesmanning wrote: > >> I like gitk. >> >> >> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Leonardo Petry <leonardo...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> What would be the best command to view a branch history? Right now I use >>> *git >>> show-branch* but I get a huge list of commits and branches. Ideally I >>> would like to see a couple of previous commits and be able to see the which >>> files where added to each commit. >>> >>> >>> On another topic I would appreciate any tips on when I should prefer >>> merge over rebase. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Git for human beings" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to git-users+...@googlegroups.com. >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
