Visualize Git Orphans via gitk and log

gistfile1.txt

# Put this in your .gitconfig file under the alias section
orphank = !gitk --all `git reflog | cut -c1-7`&
# Then run it by typing 'git orphank' on the command line.

# A text version of the same is
orphanl = !git --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --graph --decorate `git reflog | cut -c1-7`

gistfile2.txt

* a17bf55 (HEAD, master) Placeholder
* 8d2636d (origin/master, origin/HEAD) Added text about image diff example
| * 7c0ffa9 (origin/feature_image, feature_image) Made changes to an image to sh
| * 7c1bf73 Created an image to be used for web image diffing on GitHub
|/  
| * d5f4cdc Made changes to an image to show GitHub web image diffing.
| * 2a354dd Created an image to be used for web image diffing on GitHub
| | * e9eb5b9 Made changes to an image to show GitHub web image diffing.
| | * 417a71b Created an image to be used for web image diffing on GitHub
| | | * 9648459 Made changes to an image to show GitHub web image diffing.
| | | | * 1aad461 Changes to image
| | | |/  
| | | * b5e6eb5 Created an image to be used for web image diffing on GitHub
| | | | * 6dc1b97 Image 1
| | | |/  
| | | | * 9915b4e Changes to image
| | | | * e64fb9d Image 1
| | | | * 9a53b8e Good change from mattaltego
| | | | * 2961fee Revert "Main feature"
| | | |/  
| | | | * d7b2900 Changes to image
| | | | * 949320c Image 1
| | | | *   3462650 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:matthewmccullough/hellog

orphanl command should be:

orphanl = !git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --graph --decorate `git reflog | cut -d ' ' -f 1`

The single quotes are needed to pass through git unscathed (rather than double quotes). It looks like the backticks were dropped by the markdown editor in the previous post - added back here.

Rather than passing the git reflog output through cut, an even easier solution is to just use git reflog --format=format:%h:

orphank = !gitk --all $(git reflog --format=format:%h)

@living180 Thank you very much.
You saved my life.
Nice command.

Why not use the even shorter gitk --reflog?

@herrmanthegerman thanks! I didn't know it exists.

It is not even on the gitk man page:
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitk/

so IMHO it is normal nobody know a command if there are no documentation about it.

Thank you very much!

@mercuriete The gitk man page you linked to does mention this

To control which revisions to show, gitk supports most options applicable to the git rev-list command.

And the git rev-list man page documents --reflog and many other options.