Imagine serveral git branches and sub-braches, each with several commits. Although most git UI clients can display a nice branch tree view, it might be not so easy to get an overview at once: some branches start few days/weeks ago and you have to scroll and search to get all info.

I searched for a way to display just branch tree leafs, i.e. to hide all inner commits. to significantly reduce the branch size.

The only solution I found so far is:

gitk --all --simplify-by-decoration

This gives something I call a bonsai git tree. And I like it :)