Using tig as GitLens alternative for viewing git log as straight branches.
Can’t git without tig 🔗
At some point in time, all of us encountered what I call “spagitty” log that looks something like this:
Whoa… making sense of that history will take you some time but not
if you have the right tools, and here is where tig[1] comes in:
Looking at those straight branches makes you wonder why the heck we
don’t have this option as an option in git log directly.
I would not have discovered straight branches if it wasn’t for
VS Code extension GitLens and I wouldn’t have discovered tig
if GitLens would have allowed a monthly payment instead of an yearly
one.
The pure beauty of straigt branches reminds me of something I liked doing as a kid… combing the fringes of our living room persian carpet.
