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I'm really surprised that nobody mentions tig [0] when talking about git. It is by far the most convenient git visualizer I've ever used, and I use it hundreds of times a day. It's written in C so it's super fast (loads a huge project in a few seconds), and it's a CLI so you don't even have to leave the terminal.

[0] https://github.com/jonas/tig

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... or Magit.

Needs Emacs, but installable in 1 minute from Spacemacs installation, requires zero emacs knowledge and has vim-like shortcuts if required. I haven't seen any git client more convenient and powerful at the same time than Magit and I've tried dozens; I don't use Emacs but keep it around solely as a git front end.

While it’s very convenient to view the repository DAG, I find it inconvenient to actually scroll through and pore over the the patch/diff for some commit. (IIRC, you can only scroll up or down by a page, and the diff representation is fixed)

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