git log is one of most useful commands to see information about commit , author , date and subject(comment)\u00a0 while using GIT.This displays information in blocks and hardly 5 – 7 can be listed on normal screen size. But git provides –pretty option , so that we can format the output of git log;<\/p>\n
Here are some ways to do that<\/p>\n
[shell]git log –pretty=oneline[\/shell]<\/p>\n
Displays just a single line log ,which includes a commit-hash and Subject(Comment).something like this<\/p>\n
\nd1fc23c1edfd2d4ffe8ef5a873adff9321cde909 comment 3\r\na8560c814ece4e03d39164885f44e0c5cb749928 comment 2\r\ndb6195c635179b3556c41e2a974829c7e101ef51 comment 1\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\nsome other predefined options are raw,fuller,full,medium and short. Since Git is Cool we can also use some custom formats.Like<\/p>\n
[code]git log –pretty=format:"$h"[\/code]<\/p>\n
will give abbreviated hash of committs(Where %h defines abbreviated hash).And it would be something like<\/p>\n
\nd1fc23c\r\na8560c8\r\ndb6195c\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\nWhich is not quite useful , to make it better lets first see other options<\/p>\n
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- %H\u00a0 – Commit hash<\/li>\n
- %s\u00a0 – Subject<\/li>\n
- %h\u00a0 – Abbreviated hash<\/li>\n
- %an – Author name<\/li>\n
- %ae – Author e-mail<\/li>\n
- %ad – Author date<\/li>\n
- %ar – Author date, relative<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nWhile using “format” with option “–pretty” we can also specify string inside quotes.Like<\/p>\n[code]git log –pretty=format:"%h was committed by %an , %ar"[\/code]
\nWould give something like<\/p>\nd1fc23c was committed by hiteshBhatia , 5 months ago\r\na8560c8 was committed by hiteshBhatia , 5 months ago\r\ndb6195c was committed by hiteshBhatia , 5 months ago\r\n<\/blockquote><\/pre>\nTo make this more useful we can make slight changes to string passed to “format”<\/p>\n
[code]git log -3 –pretty=format:"%h ||\u00a0 %an\u00a0 ||\u00a0\u00a0 %s\u00a0 (%ar)"[\/code]<\/p>\n
Which will give us commit hash , author name , subject\u00a0 and relative date inside paranthesis.And -3 here is number of logs .So that his whole screen is not cluttered.This is the way I like to use it.<\/p>\n
d1fc23c ||\u00a0 hiteshBhatia\u00a0 ||\u00a0\u00a0 comment 3\u00a0 (5 months ago)
\na8560c8 ||\u00a0 hiteshBhatia\u00a0 ||\u00a0\u00a0 comment 2\u00a0 (5 months ago)
\ndb6195c ||\u00a0 hiteshBhatia\u00a0 ||\u00a0\u00a0 comment 1\u00a0 (5 months ago)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/br>
\nTo explore more visit. git grep manual page<\/a> or the git community book which is maintained by Scott Chacon<\/p>\n_________________________________<\/div>\nHitesh Bhatia<\/em>
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