[terminal] How to stop/cancel 'git log' command in terminal?

In terminal, I ran this command git log . It displayed a list of log but it seems that because it is long, the terminal is not displaying everything. Below logs there is : that I can see more logs when I hit enter key.

How do I terminate a command, and show the prompt for running another one.

Based on my search, I realized that ctrl+c should be used, but it doesn't work for me. I tried to enter ! and it stopped that task and I returned to $. But I'm not sure this is correct way because when hit !, from ./a/b/c moved me to ./a/b/