How to output git log with the first line only

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I am trying to customize the format for git log  I want all commits to be shown in one line  Each line should only show the first line of the commit message  I found out that git log --pretty short should do the trick but on my computer it shows the full log as git log does  besides the time stamp    Further  I tried to use the placeholders as defined in the man page  Though  I could not find a command to shorten the log message  I tried this line git log --pretty format   h    s  which shows the shorted hash  hand the full message  s in one line   I am using git version 1 7 3 1 msysgit 0 on Vista     Maybe it has something to do with the way I write my commit messages  Here is an example   Added some functionality    Added print function in Foo class    Added conversion from foo to baz    So  with the example given I only want to be output Added some functionality  prepended by the shortend hash

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Without commit messages  only the hash   git log --pretty oneline   awk   print  1

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if you want to always use git log in such way you could add git alias by  git config --global alias log log --oneline  after that git log will print what normally would be printed by git log --oneline

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Have you tried this   git log --pretty oneline --abbrev-commit   The problem is probably that you are missing an empty line after the first line  The command above usually works for me  but I just tested on a commit without empty second line  I got the same result as you  the whole message on one line   Empty second line is a standard in git commit messages  The behaviour you see was probably implemented on purpose    The first line of a commit message is meant to be a short description  If you cannot make it in a single line you can use several  but git considers everything before the first empty line to be the  short description   oneline prints the whole short description  so all your 3 rows

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You can define a global alias so you can invoke a short log in a more comfortable way   git config --global alias slog  log --pretty oneline --abbrev-commit   Then you can call it using git slog  it even works with autocompletion if you have it enabled

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git log --format  quot  H quot  -n 1 Use the above command to get the commitid  hope this helps

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Does git log --oneline do what you want

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Better and easier git log by making an alias  Paste the code below to terminal just once for one session  Paste the code to zshrc or bash profile to make it persistant   git config --global alias lg  log --color --graph --pretty format   Cred h Creset - C yellow  d Creset  s  Cgreen  cr   C bold blue  lt  an gt  Creset  --abbrev-commit    Output     git lg   Output changed lines     git lg -p   Alternatively  recommended  Paste this code to global  gitconfig file   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   Further Reading  https   coderwall com p euwpig a-better-git-log Advanced Reading  http   durdn com blog 2012 11 22 must-have-git-aliases-advanced-examples

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if you only want the first line of the messages  the subject   git log --pretty format  quot  s quot   and if you want all the messages on this branch going back to master  git log --pretty format  quot  s quot  master  HEAD  Last but not least  if you want to add little bullets for quick markdown release notes  git log --pretty format  quot -  s quot  master  HEAD

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If you don t want hashes and just the first lines  subject lines   git log --pretty format  s

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