<p>So what is the easiest way to accomplish this?</p>

Path of least resistance is to download
Tortoise
, which supports this out of the box.
From their features page:
Can create a graph of
  all revisions/commits. You can then
  easily see where you created a
  tag/branch or modified a file/folder
  Graphs of commit statistics of the
  project Easy comparing of two branches
  or tags