Prettify your git log graphs

If you're using git as a version control system you must know of the awesomeness that is git log --graph; this displays your commits in a nice tree form.

The downside to this is that it can be loooong and hard to parse, so let's prettify it!

By making the following alias you get:

• colors
• graph of commits
• one commit per line
• abbreviated commit IDs
• dates relative to now
• commit references
• author of the commit

And the alias is:

git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative"

What you'll see will be similar to: