Do you want your git log output to run older-to-newer, and you haven't heard of --reverse?
Do you want to find out what happened since a given commit, rather than what happened before it,
and you haven't found the git log options to do that either?
Then git-invert is the tool for you!
git-invert inverts the parent-child relationship between commits, so that git log starts
by showing a commit representing the time when the repository was empty, before the first commit;
then continues to newer and newer commits, ending with all of your code.
Requires a new-ish Ruby.
Clone git-invert, then add its bin directory to your PATH.
Then, from inside the repository you want to invert:
# Repository has annoying parent-older-than-child ordering
git invert
# Repository now has much better inverted ordering!
# Take a look at your nice clean codebase
ls
# Enjoy the new, much more readable, history:
git log --graph --stat- All commit hashes change
- Does not preserve commit signatures
- Once inverted, most git commands won't work the way you probably expect them to
- Impossible to continue development in any meaningful manner
git-invert truly is the tool that you never knew you wanted.
In fact, not only that, but git-invert is also the tool that you knew you never wanted!