Once again, I found a valuable tool for the shell that can replace a much more complex gui tool: tig. Tig can replace gitk and doesn't need X11. So if you need/want to work on an environment where gui is not trivial (X11 on cygwin anyone? Or maybe just ssh on a build VM?), but need some more overview over your git repository, tig may help. Others have written about it before, so I will just provide a screenshot: