How to display the tag name and branch name using git log –graph

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With git log (so, not gitk), you can use the decorate option (%d) in a pretty format, for displaying the branch name (but only for commits which are the HEAD of said branches):

alias.lgb=log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset%n' --abbrev-commit --date=relative --branches

(you have to declare that alias with:

git config --global alias.lgb "log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset%n' --abbrev-commit --date=relative --branches"

Then you can use it with ‘git lgb‘. Note: you can name it with a different alias.
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Will give:

* e33afe7 - (HEAD, master) fix zlib make install issue on cygwin (8 seconds ago) <VonC>
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* f825f36 - add CPPFLAG option for cygwin compilation of gcc (26 hours ago) <VonC>
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* 9341979 - (origin/master, origin/HEAD) update error messages for compiling gcc within cygwin (2 days ago) <VonC>
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* 42d81af - copy dll in $H/usr/local/bin instead of linking when compiling in cygwin (3 days ago) <VonC>

Update Git 2.2 (November 2014): see commit 9271095 from Harry Jeffery (eXeC64):

pretty: add %D format specifier

Add a new format specifier, ‘%D‘ that is identical in behaviour to ‘%d‘, except that it does not include the ‘ (‘ prefix or ‘)‘ suffix provided by ‘%d‘.

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