History or log of commands executed in Git

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Is there a way I can keep track of commands I used in Git under Windows  I want to view all the commands that I have applied on my repository    I want to be able to go back through the command history and figure out the command that caused the problem if one occurred   Seeing the history of commits would be one thing  but for keeping a history of other actions such as creating a branch or adding a remote  are these tracked

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If you are using CentOS or another Linux flavour then just do Ctrl+R at the prompt and type git.

If you keep hitting Ctrl+R this will do a reverse search through your history for commands that start with git

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I found out that in my version of git bash  2 24 0 windows 2  in my  home  folder under windows users  there will be a file called   bash-history  with no file extension in that folder  It s only created after you exit from bash    Here s my workflow    before exiting bash type  history    history txt   ENTER  exit the bash prompt hold Win R to open the Run command box enter shell profile open  history txt  to confirm that my text was added On a new line press  F5  to enter a timestamp save and close the history textfile Delete the   bash-history  file so the next session will create a new history   If you really want points I guess you could make a batch file to do all this but this is good enough for me   Hope it helps someone

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git will show changes in commits that affect the index  such as git rm  It does not store a log of all git commands you execute   However  a large number of git commands affect the index in some way  such as creating a new branch  These changes will show up in the commit history  which you can view with git log   However  there are destructive changes that git can t track  such as git reset   So  to answer your question  git does not store an absolute history of git commands you ve executed in a repository  However  it is often possible to interpolate what command you ve executed via the commit history

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A log of your commands may be available in your shell history   history   If seeing the list of executed commands fly by isn t for you  export the list into a file   history  gt  path to file   You can restrict the exported dump to only show commands with  git  in them by piping it with grep  history   grep  git    gt  path to file   The history may contain lines formatted as such  518  git status -s 519  git commit -am  injects sriracha to all toppings  as required    Using the number you can re-execute the command with an exclamation mark     518 git status -s

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You can see the history with git-reflog  example here    git reflog

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Type history in your terminal  It s not technically git  but I think it is what you want

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If you use Windows PowerShell  you could type  git  and the press F8   Continue to press F8 to cycle through all your git commands   Or  if you use cygwin  you could do the same thing with  R

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