Logs are not represented as in the demo

[plaffitt]

Describe the bug
The log panel doesn't show pretty logs like in the demo.

To Reproduce

1. Open lazy git and select a branch

Expected behavior

I want to see something like this (or at least some documentation that explains how to configure lazy git to do it) :

But I see this :

Or this :

Version info:
lazygit: commit=6fcb7eb8bb616c170506312870b3bf15f3dbe37c, build date=2024-05-19T10:15:28Z, build source=binaryRelease, version=0.42.0, os=linux, arch=amd64, git version=2.34.1
git: git version 2.34.1

[mark2185]

Try using zoomed modes by pressing + or _, I think that'll do it.

[plaffitt]

I found how to do, either set git.log.showWholeGraph: true or Log menu -> Show git graph (<c-l> in the commits window by default). But I still wonder why the commits panel isn't configurable like the log one (git.branchLogCmd) and what command exactly produce the output of the commit panel ?

[ChrisMcD1]

/close

Thankfully, the behavior you want is now default! As of https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pull/3314,`git.log.showGraph` now defaults to always, which gives you the pretty graph. showWholeGraph is actually precisely about whether you see unmerged histories in the graph, or just the history converging on your current branch.

But I still wonder why the commits panel isn't configurable like the log one (git.branchLogCmd) and what command exactly produce the output of the commit panel ?

The reason it isn't is that this is a commit graph that is being built inside of Lazygit, where the log panel is just us throwing a command out into the world, and rendering whatever it gives back to us in that panel. So the configuration options are whatever we have built custom.

Check out here if you want to see some of the logic to render that pretty graph.

lazygit/pkg/gui/presentation/commits.go

Line 80 in 5d30409

if showGraph {