i threw this alias in my .gitconfig early on, and it's gotten the job done so far...

  hist = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %s%C(yellow)%d%Creset %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset [%an]' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

Just use gitk...

I admit, I do `hg help revsets` with some regularity, because I do need to look up the right functions that can perform the query I want, but it's really just a reference check, not a check on the syntax of the language.