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Because both of them are basically "git log in a gui".

It's the same overly busy UI, the same lack of easily seeable branch names (yes I know this isn't how git works internally, but it's extremely useful), the same vertical layout on our widescreen monitors, and they are still ugly to me (although this is honestly one of the lowest on my list of priorities).

I'm looking for something like [0] but with a better UX (Github's version doesn't let you scroll with the mouse wheel for instance), is fast enough to pull up at a glance to quickly see the state of the whole repo, and won't get disabled if the repo has too many forks (and I'm guessing branches, although I've never seen it happen from then alone) like Github's does.

It's easy to glance at and see where a branch is (what was merged into it, what it was merged into, etc...), who did the work (in the example it shows in a "tooltip" when you hover over the dot), roughly when the work was done, and what that branch includes.

[0] https://imgur.com/tvTp5z8



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