The shortest possible output from git log containing author and date

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How can I show a git log output with  at least  this information      author   commit date   change   I want it compressed to one line per log entry  What s the shortest possible format for that    tried --format oneline but that does not show the date

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Feel free to use this one   git log --pretty   C Yellow  h   C reset  ad   C Green  cr C reset   x09  C Cyan  an   C reset  s  -7   Note the -7 at the end  to show only the last 7 entries   Look

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git log --pretty format   h x09 an x09 ad x09 s   did the job  This outputs     fbc3503 mads    Thu Dec 4 07 43 27 2008  0000   show mobile if phone is null         ec36490 jesper  Wed Nov 26 05 41 37 2008  0000  Cleanup after  942   Using timezon   ae62afd tobias  Tue Nov 25 21 42 55 2008  0000  Fixed  67 by adding time zone supp   164be7e mads    Tue Nov 25 19 56 43 2008  0000  fixed tests  and a  unending appoi   93f1526 jesper  Tue Nov 25 09 45 56 2008  0000  adding time ZONE now as time zone    2f0f8c1 tobias  Tue Nov 25 03 07 02 2008  0000  Timezone configured in environment   a33c1dc jesper  Tue Nov 25 01 26 18 2008  0000  updated to most recent will pagina   Inspired by stackoverflow question   git log output like svn ls -v   i found out that I could add the exact params I needed   To shorten the date  not showing the time  use --date short  In case you were curious what the different options were   h   abbreviated commit hash  x09   tab  character for code 9   an   author name  ad   author date  format respects --date  option   s   subject From kernel org pub software scm git docs git-log html  PRETTY FORMATS section  by comment of Vivek

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git log --pretty format   H  an  ad    use --date  to set a date format  git log --pretty format   H  an  ad  --date short

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All aforementioned suggestions use  s placeholder for subject  I ll recommend to use  B because  s formatting preserves new lines and multiple lines commit message appears squashed   git log --pretty format   h x09 an x09 ai x09 B

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git log --pretty format   h  ad  s   an   --date short     or  git log --pretty format   h  ad  s    an  --date short        riffing on cdunn2001 s answer above   I d lose the author s e mail and include just the author s name  as per Jesper and knittl  but in keeping with cdunn2001 s idea of maintaining output in columns of constant width for ease of reading  great idea    In lieu of a separate left justified column for author name  however  I wrap that flag at the end of the command with a parentheses or offset it with a pipe    Could really be any character that serves as a visual aid in reading the output   albeit might make sense to avoid back or forward slashes in order to reduce confusing the output with a directory or something      Sample output   6fdd155 2015-08-10 Fixes casting error in doSave   John Doe c4f4032 2015-08-10 Fix for IE save  Add help button    Jane 29a24a6 2015-08-10 Fixes bug in Course   Mac

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I use these two  gitconfig settings    log    date   relative  format    pretty   format  h  Cblue ad Creset  ae  Cgreen s Creset    ad is the author date  which can be overidden by --date or the option specified in the  log  stanza in  gitconfig  I like the relative date because it gives an immediate feeling of when stuff was comitted  Output looks like this   6c3e1a2 2 hours ago you me com lsof is a dependency now  0754f18 11 hours ago you me com Properly unmount  so detaching works  336a3ac 13 hours ago you me com Show ami registration command if auto register fails be2ad45 17 hours ago you me com Fixes  6  Sao Paolo region is included as well  5aed68e 17 hours ago you me com Shorten while loops   This is all of course in color  so it is easy to distinguish the various parts of a log line  Also it is the default when typing git log because of the  format  section   2014 UPDATE  Since git now supports padding I have a nice amendment to the version above   pretty   format  C yellow  h  Cblue  gt  12  ad  Cgreen  lt  7  aN Cred d  Creset s   This right aligns the relative dates and left aligns committer names  meaning you get a column-like look that is easy on the eyes   Screenshot   nbsp  nbsp   2016 UPDATE  Since GPG commit signing is becoming a thing  I thought I d update this post with a version that includes signature verification  in the screenshot it s the magenta letter right after the commit   A short explanation of the flag       G   show  G  for a good  valid  signature   B  for a bad signature   U  for a good signature with unknown validity and  N  for no signature     Other changes include    colors are now removed if the output is to something other than the tty  which is useful for grepping etc   git log -g now contains the reflog selector  Save 2 parens on refnames and put them at the end  to preserve column alignment  Truncate relative dates if they are too long  e g  3 years  4    Truncate commiter names  might be a little short for some ppl  just change the   lt  7 trunc  or check out the git  mailmap feature to shorten commiter names    Here s the config   pretty   format  C auto yellow  h C auto magenta   G   C auto blue   gt  12 trunc  ad  C auto green   lt  7 trunc  aN C auto reset  s C auto red   gD  D   All in all column alignment is now preserved a lot better at the expense of some  hopefully  useless characters  Feel free to edit if you have any improvements  I d love to make the message color depend on whether a commit is signed  but it doesn t seem like that is possible atm   Screenshot

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tig is a possible alternative to using the git log command  available on the major open source  nix distributions  On debian or ubuntu try installing and running as follows    sudo apt-get install tig  For mac users  brew to the rescue     brew install tig   tig gets installed    tig   log is displayed in pager as follows  with current commit s hash displayed at the bottom  2010-03-17 01 07 ndesigner      changes to sponsors list 2010-03-17 00 19 rcoder         Raise 404 when an invalid year is specified  2010-03-17 00 06 rcoder         Sponsors page now shows sponsors  level  -------------------------- skip some lines ---------------------------------  main  531f35e925f53adeb2146dcfc9c6a6ef24e93619 - commit 1 of 32  100    Since markdown doesn t support text coloring  imagine  column 1  blue  column 2  green  column 3  default text color  Last line  highlighted  Hit Q or q to exit   tig justifies the columns without ragged edges  which an ascii tab   x09  doesn t guarantee  For a short date format hit capital D  note  lowercase d opens a diff view   Configure it permanently by adding show-date   short to    tigrc  or in a  tig  section in  git configure or    gitconfig  To see an entire change   hit Enter  A sub pane will open in the lower half of the window  use k  j keys to scroll the change in the sub pane  at the same time  use the up  down keys to move from commit to commit   Since tig is separate from git and apparently  nix specific  it probably requires cygwin to install on windows  But for fedora I believe the install commands are   su   enter root password     yum install tig  For freebsd try   su    enter root password     pkg add -r tig   By the way  tig is good for a lot more than a quick view of the log  Screenshots  amp  Manual

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To show the commits I have staged that are ready to push I do  git log remotes trunk 4  HEAD --pretty format   C yellow  h C white   ad  aN x09 d x09 s  --date short   awk -F  t    gsub            2  gsub  HEAD     033 1 36mH 033 00m   2  gsub  master     033 1 32mm 033 00m   2  gsub  trunk     033 1 31mt 033 00m   2  print  1   t  gensub               033 0 33m  1 033 00m   g   2   3     less -eiFRXS   The output looks something like   ef87da7 2013-01-17 haslers       Hm Fix NPE in Frobble 8f6d80f 2013-01-17 haslers      Refactor Frobble 815813b 2013-01-17 haslers       t Add Wibble to Frobble 3616373 2013-01-17 haslers      Add Foo to Frobble 3b5ccf0 2013-01-17 haslers      Add Bar to Frobble a1db9ef 2013-01-17 haslers      Add Frobble Widget   Where the first column appears in yellow  and the  H   m  and  t  in parentesis show the HEAD  master and trunk and appear in their usual  --decorate  colors  Here it is with line breaks so you can see what it s doing   git log remotes trunk 4  HEAD --date short     --pretty format   C yellow  h C white   ad  aN x09 d x09 s        awk -F  t              gsub            2            gsub  HEAD     033 1 36mH 033 00m   2            gsub  master     033 1 32mm 033 00m   2            gsub  trunk     033 1 31mt 033 00m   2            print  1   t  gensub               033 0 33m  1 033 00m   g   2   3     I have aliased to  staged  with   git config alias staged   git log remotes trunk 4  HEAD --date short --pretty format   C yellow  h C white   ad  aN x09 d x09 s    awk -F  t    gsub               2  gsub  HEAD      033 1 36mH 033 00m     2  gsub  master      033 1 32mm 033 00m     2  gsub  trunk      033 1 31mt 033 00m     2  print   1    t   gensub                033 0 33m     1 033 00m     g     2    3       Is there an easier way to escape that  it was a bit tricky to work out what needed escaping

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git --no-pager log --pretty tformat  quot  C yellow  h  C cyan  ad  Cblue an C auto  d  Creset s quot  --graph --date format  quot  Y- m- d  H  M quot  -25   I use alias alias gitlog  git --no-pager log --pretty tformat  quot  C yellow  h  C cyan  ad  Cblue an C auto  d  Creset s quot  --graph --date format  quot  Y- m- d  H  M quot  -25   Differences  I use tformat and isodate without seconds and time zones   with --no-pager you will see  colors

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Run this in project folder      git log --pretty format   C yellow  h  ar  C auto  d  Creset  s    Cblue cn  --graph --all   And if you like  add this line to your    gitconfig    alias              list   log --pretty format    C yellow  h  ar  C auto  d  Creset  s   Cblue cn   --graph --all

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Try git log --pretty fuller  it will show you - Author  Author Date  Commit  Commit Date   Hope this helps

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git log --pretty format   h  ad   s x09 ae  --date short   Result   e17bae5 2011-09-30  Integrate from development - gt  main      nixon whitehouse gov eaead2c 2011-09-30  More stuff that is not worth mentioning bgates apple com eb6a336 2011-09-22  Merge branch  freebase  into development        jobs nirvana org   Constant-width stuff is first  The least important part -- the email domain -- is last and easy to filter

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Use predefined git alias  i e      git work   Created once by command     git config --global alias work  log --pretty format   h x09 an x09 ad x09 s     https   git-scm com book tr v2 Git-Basics-Git-Aliases  Or more colored with graph     git config --global alias work  log --pretty format   C yellow  h  ar  C auto  d  Creset  s    Cblue cn  --graph --all

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Note the -10 at the end  to show only the last 10 entries  Use predefined git alias  hs - short for history   git hs  Created once by command  git config --global alias hs  quot log --pretty   C yellow  h  C cyan  ad  Cblue aN C auto  d  Creset s  --date relative --date-order --graph quot    h   abbreviated commit hash  ad   author date  format respects --date  option  so you can adjust it later   aN   author name  respecting  mailmap   d   ref names  s   subject Reference  https   git-scm com docs git-log  pretty formats

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