How to exit git log or git diff

Question

I m trying to learn Git with the help of Git Immersion  There s one thing that frustrates me whenever I use git log or git diff     I can t figure out what to do next when I encounter this  END  word   I can t type any commands  and I end up closing the current Bash window and open another  How do I type in the next command that I want to use

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You can press q to exit   git hist is using a pager tool so you can scroll up and down the results before returning to the console

User · Answer

Actually  there are three ways to do it  precisely   Type any of the following 3 commands     q  z or Ctrl   z   P S   Sometimes  for someone  one of these options doesn t seem to work and for others it works

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The END comes from the pager used to display the log  your are at that moment still inside it   Type q to exit it

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Add following alias in the  bashrc file  git --no-pager log --oneline -n 10    --no-pager will encounter the  END  word -n 10 will show only the last 10 commits --oneline will show the commit message  ignore the author  date information

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I wanted to give some kudos to the comment that mentioned CTRL   Z as an option  At the end of the day  it s going to depend on what system that you have Git installed on and what program is configured to open text files  e g  less vs  vim   CTRL   Z works for vim on Windows   If you re using Git in a Windows environment  there are some quirks  Just helps to know what they are   i e  Notepad vs  Nano  etc

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You re in the less program  which makes the output of git log scrollable   Type q to exit this screen  Type h to get help   If you don t want to read the output in a pager and want it to be just printed to the terminal define the environment variable GIT PAGER to cat or set core pager to cat  execute git config --global core pager cat

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In this case  as snarly suggested  typing q is the intended way to quit git log  as with most other pagers or applications that use pagers    However normally  if you just want to abort a command that is currently executing  you can try ctrl c  doesn t seem to work for git log  however  or ctrl z  although in bash  ctrl-z will freeze the currently running foreground process  which can then be thawed as a background process with the bg command

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