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@bertyhell bertyhell commented Oct 12, 2026 •
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Adds a "Commit Graph Style" option in Preferences > Appearance (Classic stays the default).

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settings appearance option:
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branch or tag overflow menu
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user tooltips
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right click column titles also opens the column options:
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The Avatars style shows:

  • a resizable BRANCH / TAG column with left-aligned refs, connector lines to the commit, a +N badge with a dropdown for refs that do not fit, and tooltips for trimmed names
  • a resizable GRAPH column with author avatars (or initials) as nodes, small dots for merges, rounded straight lines and lane colored row bands
  • a separate COMMIT MESSAGE column, 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

@bertyhell @claude
feature: add Avatars commit graph style
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Adds a "Commit Graph Style" option in Preferences > Appearance (Classic stays the default).

The `Avatars` style shows:
- a resizable BRANCH / TAG column with left-aligned refs, connector lines to the commit, a `+N` badge with a dropdown for refs that do not fit, and tooltips for trimmed names
- a resizable GRAPH column with author avatars (or initials) as nodes, small dots for merges, rounded straight lines and lane colored row bands
- a separate COMMIT MESSAGE column, 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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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love-linger commented Oct 13, 2026

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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.

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bertyhell commented Oct 13, 2026 •
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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

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love-linger commented Oct 13, 2026

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

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bertyhell commented Oct 13, 2026

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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

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