A nice tip from Scott Chacon by way of Conrad Parker[0] is to create `git lol` and `git lola` aliases to display a color-coded view of history layout in the con

A nice tip from Scott Chacon by way of Conrad Parker[0] is to create `git lol` and `git lola` aliases to display a color-coded view of history layout in the console. Summary: add the following to your `~/.gitconfig`. [alias] lol = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit lola = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --all [color] branch = auto diff = auto interactive = auto status = auto [0]: http://blog.kfish.org/2010/04/git-lola.html http://blog.kfish.org/2010/04/git-lola.html