The majority of times I start git-cola I go through the sequence Branch → Visualize Current Branch... (or Visualize All Branches...).
Is there a way to directly launch one of those views from the command line?
$ git-cola --version
cola version 2.5
Well, incidentally I found this answer to an unrelated question, where I discovered git-cola adds a cola module to git (git cola ..., git help cola). Then I checked through git help cola but didn't see what I was looking for.
But then I noticed the viewer had gitk at the end of the title bar.
So I just typed gitk on the command line and it worked. Not too experienced with git and related tools, so I didn't know that existed.
So to answer my initial question more specifically (at least for Git Cola 2.5):
gitkgitk --allgitk <branchname>git dagI do not know if gitk came with git-cola, or if it's its own thing, or really how I got it. Same deal with the DAG tool.