A better git log

This doesn't work for individual files

@askjuise Thank. I've fixed. :)

You guys can try this one :

git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative"

this will:
-one commit per line

-show graph of commits

-abbreviated commit IDs

-dates relative to now

-show commit references (like git log --decorate)

-lots of colour

-show author of the commit

Cool Filipe! Thanks!

Great Filipe! Thanks :)

Very nice, thanks man

thats amazing. thanks!

Thanks man! For copy-pasting change-logs, here's an ascii friendly version:

git log --graph --pretty=format:'%h -%d %s (%cr) <%an>' --abbrev-commit

...and the alias:

git config --global alias.lg-ascii "log --graph --pretty=format:'%h -%d %s (%cr) <%an>' --abbrev-commit"

[alias]
lg = !tig

google "tig" for more info

This is great, thanks!

Rather than a git alias, I opted for a bash alias by adding this line to my .bash_profile:
alias gitlog="git log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"

Now I have gitlog and gitlog -p.
Thanks again!

git log | tig

https://github.com/jonas/tig

Try this
git log --oneline --abbrev-commit --all --graph --decorate --color

It will give you one line commits, plus branching.

FYI, %h is for abbreviated commit hash, making --abbrev-commit redundant.

Call me old fashioned. I use the alias glo mapped to

git log --decorate --oneline --graph and that works well for me.

Or, if I'm feeling like I need something a bit different, glg , which is mapped to

git log --decorate --graph --abbrev-commit --date=relative

https://github.com/kevinSuttle/dotfiles/blob/master/git/aliases.zsh#L11

This is great! Thanks :D

I like this one, that shows the branch graph on the left:

history = log --graph --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%h%C(cyan)%d%Creset %s %C(white)- %an, %ar%Creset'
stash-list = stash list --pretty=format:'%Cblue%gd%Cred: %C(yellow)%s'q

Looks like: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/1b468c02-8e39-499f-afd8-2fd3a099896c/88b8c39a380bc90b5809b2e9f4f069cc/deep/0/Screenshot%206/7/13%202:56%20PM.png

@dshafik Mine also shows the graph :) It just happened to be a flat-line for the screenshots I've chose :P

Love it!

scm_breeze on github does something similar automatically plus a bunch of other nice aliases

There is no need for --abbrev-commit.

Thanks for the tip though, I trimmed mine down to:

git log --format='%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(blue)<%an>%Creset%C(yellow)%d%Creset' --no-merges

This is great, thanks for sharing !

Great stuff.

I keep it simple with
git log --oneline --decorate --graph

This shows each commit on one line, decorates each line with any information about branches and repos and displays a graph where commits have branched or merged.

If you want to really personalise you git log with specific colours, here is an article to explain the syntax of all that in detail:
http://blog.jr0cket.co.uk/2013/06/designing-your-own-commit-graph-with-git.html

Thanks
John

In my gists NOW!

Eu te amo! haha

I'd prefer to set the default to --graph --decorate, rather than cook up a new alias. :/

Nice! Any tips on porting this to Fish? I'm quite new to the command line stuff, and I can't find any reference to %C, string interpolation or command line styling for Fish shell. /lost

update: Okay, so the reason why I was getting an error was, I was putting white space between the '='. My bad! Carry along.

https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit

is kinda awesome

npm install -g ungit && ungit

The git plugin of oh-my-zsh comes with tons of aliases, including log aliases.

• alias glgg='git log --graph --max-count=10'
• alias glgga='git log --graph --decorate --all'
• alias glo='git log --oneline --decorate --color'
• alias glog='git log --oneline --decorate --color --graph'

Just install tig, a much much better command line tool for git

Pretty sweet!, now I can read the git log so much easier

As of Git 1.8.3 (May 24, 2013), you can now have (automatic) more comprehensive and useful colors on commits, branches and tags using %C(auto):

git log --graph --pretty=format:'%C(auto)%h -%d %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit

Cool ;)
Take it.
Thank you Filipe.

awesome, Boy!

Wow, cool. I guess I'll look at my log now than on Bitbucket or Github. Thanks for sharing.

nice!

Great..!! thank you for sharing..

Thanks, i'll try it

Awesome, really useful! :)

Fantastic

Where this command saved? I can't see it in my zshrc file.

Thank you for this :)

Thanks, this is great!

Amigo, muchas gracias, es un excelente aporte.

Using this as base I change it a little bit.

git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%C(#dc322f)%h%C(#b58900)%d %C(#eee8d5)%s %C(#dc322f)| %C(#586f75)%cr %C(#dc322f)| %C(#586e75)%an%Creset' --abbrev-commit"

[ Screenshot ]
https://i.imgur.com/4i8cTy2.png

very nice, I would suggest changing %cr to %ar as commit dates change when rebasing

ah... great config. really love it

Buddy, well done.

One more interesting variant:
git log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold cyan)%aD%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)%n'' %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)' --all

I also want to add, you can write the git log output stream to a file and see an HTML report about your repository. There are many open-source solutions for this. For example https://github.com/bakhirev/assayo