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In the git community book, it says
Another interesting thing you can do is visualize the commit graph with the '--graph' option, like so:
$ git log --pretty=format:'%h : %s' --graph * 2d3acf9 : ignore errors from SIGCHLD on trap * 5e3ee11 : Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/dustin/grit |\ | * 420eac9 : Added a method for getting the current branch. * | 30e367c : timeout code and tests * | 5a09431 : add timeout protection to grit * | e1193f8 : support for heads with slashes in them |/ * d6016bc : require time for xmlschemaIt will give a pretty nice ASCII representation of the commit history lines.
How should I read this graph? How does 420eac9 differ from the rest?
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The colors are merely meant to help you view the lines as distinct from other lines. To answer question #1, they are assigned not pseudo-randomly, but rather sequentially, each time git log --graph picks a new "column number".
The git log command shows a list of all the commits made to a repository. You can see the hash of each Git commit, the message associated with each commit, and more metadata. This command is useful for displaying the history of a repository.
The asterisks show where something was committed:
e1193f8, 5a09431 and 30e367c were committed to the left branch (yielding a | on the right branch) whereas 420eac9 was committed to the right branch (yielding a | on the left branch). And that is how 420eac9 differs from the rest: it's the only commit to the right branch.
For the sake of completeness:
d6016bc was the branching point5e3ee11 is the merging commit2d3acf9 is the first commit after merging
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420eac9 is on a different branch than the 3 commits "below" it. The branches diverged after d6016bc and they were merged in 5e3ee11.
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