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Often during a commit    git -commit -m      I wish to read my last comment to remember what progress I have made  Is there an easy way to directly access the last commit message through command-line   I m using Windows

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To start with git log -1  --pretty   s   But the below one covers all the cases    git log --pretty  format  Creset s  --no-merges -1   No unwanted white spaces Discards merge commits No commit id  date  Displays only the messages     Paste  amp  see for yourself

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For something a little more readable  run this command once   git config --global alias lg  log --graph --pretty format   Cred h Creset - C yellow  d Creset  s  Cgreen  cr   C bold blue  lt  an gt  Creset  --abbrev-commit --date relative    so that when you then run   git lg   you get a nice readout   To show only the last line   git lg -1   Solution found here

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git log -1 branch name will show you the last message from the specified branch  i e  not necessarily the branch you re currently on

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If you want to see just the subject  first line  of the commit message  git log -1 --format  s  This was not previously documented in any answer  Alternatively  the approach by nos also shows it  Reference   git log - emsem

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This command will get you the last commit message  git log -1 --oneline --format  s   sed  s           outputs something similar to  Create FUNDING yml  You can change the -1 to any negative number to increase the range of commit messages retrieved

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I just found out a workaround with shell by retrieving the previous command   Press Ctrl-R  to bring up reverse search command   reverse-i-search  Then start typing git commit -m  this will add this as search command  and this brings the previous git commit with its message   reverse-i-search git commit -m   git commit -m  message    Enter  That s it    tested in Ubuntu shell

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git log -1 will display the latest commit message or git log -1 --oneline if you only want the sha1 and associated commit message to be displayed

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You can use git show -s --format  s  Here --format enables various printing options  see documentation here  Specifically   smeans  subject   In addition  -s stands for --no-patch  which suppresses the diff content  I often use git show -s --format   h  s   where  h denotes a short hash of the commit Another way is git show-branch --no-name HEAD  It seems to run faster than the other way  I actually wrote a small tool to see the status of all my repos  You can find it on github

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git show   is the fastest to type  but shows you the diff as well   git log -1   is fast and simple   git log -1 --pretty  B   if you need just the commit message and nothing else

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Generally   git log -n   will show you the last n commit messages  More elegantly - if you want a quick overview of your commits  git log --oneline -n   This will Show just the first line of the last n commit messages   You can save this as a git alias or a shell alias with a shorter command  I ve got it in my shell as glog  for example  and I can see my last 10 commit messages with glog -10

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I did this   git reflog -1   sed  s

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