[bertyhell]

Adds a "Commit Graph Style" option in Preferences > Appearance (Classic stays the default).

full width:

settings appearance option:

user tooltips

right click column titles also opens the column options:

The Avatars style shows:

• a resizable GRAPH column with author avatars (or initials) as nodes, small dots for merges, rounded straight lines and lane colored row bands
• a COMMIT MESSAGE column with the branches / tags in front of the message (same as the classic style), with left-aligned column headers

Also:

• tooltip on graph avatars with author and date
• right-click on column headers opens the history options menu
• align the graph overlay with the rows below the header separator

[love-linger]

This implementation cannot meet the requirement of quickly browsing branch status (some refs are folded) and is also a waste of horizontal space. I have replied in more than one ISSUE that SourceGit does not intend to adopt this design philosophy.

[bertyhell]

so if the branches stay in the description column this would be acceptable?

personally i have a widescreen, so plenty of space
but it's true that some people work on smaller screens
that's why i made it an option and not the default

[love-linger]

Even for widescreens, lots of users will enable the Horizontal history layout to see more commits. For example:

[bertyhell]

hmm, i see
we can also gain some width, since the author column isn't that needed anymore with the avatars
but that depends a lot on the project. if you know the people or if it's opensource
one option could be to hide the author column when you switch to this git tree visualisation (you can still re-enable it by right clicking the column headers or the column options button)

anyway, if anyone else wants to play around with the tree visualisations, you can try a dev build here:
https://github.com/bertyhell/sourcegit/releases/tag/v2026.22.1

[bertyhell]

i've updated the code, to keep the branches inside the commit message column, to save some space
as per @love-linger comments:
#2779 (comment)
#2779 (comment)