git branch manager ui?

Question

Is there any git UI for managing just git branches, hidding commits? All currently available git clients show big log report with all commits in branches, so I might lost the focus of a branch that is not on screen, due to many commits that happened recently.

I want to be able to 'minimize' or to 'collapse' all commits into single dot (bigger dot - more commits are collapsed) or line (thicker line - more commits) and to visualize only branches that then can be manipulated. So, again, it is like SmartGit log view, but with collapsed commits of branch, so I can quickly see just the git branch tree.

Answer 1

There's a nice option that you can use with gitk called --simplify-by-decoration which only displays commits that are pointed to by branches or tags. I've given a "before and after" example below. Any tool that takes options understood by git rev-list such as git log, gitk and many others can take this parameter.

Before

gitk --all

After

gitk --all --simplify-by-decoration