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Stefan HallerandClaude Opus 5.5 da5b9b54eb Add an option to draw the commit graph with branch drawing symbols
If a branch forks off a merge commit, the graph can't show both lines
in the merge commit's row. The line from the branch's first commit ends
in the same cell in which the merge's line to its second parent starts.
The box drawing characters have no symbol for a line from above that
bends to the left combined with a line from the left that bends down,
so one of the two gets lost. Today the cell shows a plain vertical
line, and the branch looks as if it sat on the merge's second parent
(#5497).

The branch drawing symbols in the Unicode Private Use Area (U+F5D0 to
U+F60D) have a symbol for every way in which lines meet in a cell.
kitty introduced them for git graph viewers like vim-flog, and Ghostty,
Contour, the terminal of VS Code and nightly builds of WezTerm render
them too. Other terminals need a font that contains them.

Add the gui.commitGraphStyle config. Its 'detailed' style draws the
graph with these symbols, and the commit symbols of the set connect to
their lines. Commits are drawn as hollow circles and merge commits as
filled ones. The default stays the 'classic' style with the box drawing
characters, because not every terminal can display the others.

A cell has only one colour. Where two lines meet, the symbol takes the
colour of the line from above. With the box drawing characters,
highlighting the lines of the selected commit clears the cells they run
through. The branch drawing symbols keep the other lines. A cell in
which a highlighted line bends is highlighted as a whole. Where a
highlighted line crosses the vertical line of another commit, it is
drawn over that line, so that it reads as one line. In a cell in which
another line bends, the symbol keeps the colour of that line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-04 18:47:01 +02:00
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