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Nice stuff. This kind of branching visualisation is highly useful. I'd like to work with that kind of interface. I suppose I should use gitk or something similar?

How did you create the branch visualization? Did you use some sort of library for displaying and animating connected nodes, or is it all coded from scratch?

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I had to code it all from scratch unfortunately :-/ I looked at d3.js, arbor.js, and a ton of other libraries but none of them supported the tree layout I had in mind. Apparently visual tree layouts are PhD dissertation topics so there's a wide variety out there

I think a lot of educational value is in the animations as well, so it made sense to roll my own. The majority of the code involves all the visual and GUI elements -- re-implementing git (ironically) wasn't too bad!

Looks like raphael

https://github.com/pcottle/learnGitBranching/tree/master/lib

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