How To: Show commit logs
related commands:
log
There is a lot of reasons to want to / have to show what append in commit logs. So remember, commit logs is at least as important as source codes.
There is a git command to show commit logs. Without any options, it will show you all parents commit of your current version: git log
$ git log
commit 7950659dc9ef7f2b50b18010622299c508bfdfc3
Author: author <author (at) mail.com>
Date: <commit date>
commit message
commit 221243eb14415fdda82f250b687203a9b86e7f08
Author: author <author (at) mail.com>
Date: <commit date>
other message
commit f491239170cb1463c7c3cd970862d6de636ba787
Author: author <author (at) mail.com>
Date: <commit date>
message
If you activated log.abbrevCommit in your configuration, the output will be:
$ git log
commit 7950659
Author: author <author (at) mail.com>
Date: <commit date>
commit message
commit 221243e
Author: author <author (at) mail.com>
Date: <commit date>
other message
commit f491239
Author: author <author (at) mail.com>
Date: <commit date>
message
There is a lot of options with log (more than a hundred!), to filter them before display or show more informations about each commits.
If you defined the hist alias like me, you will be able to see:
$ git hist
* 7950659 - (HEAD, master) commit message (10 minutes ago) <author>
| * 41ab9d8 - (my_branch) branch commit message (15 minutes ago) <author2>
|/
* 221243e - other message (5 hours ago) <author>
* f491239 - message (8 hours ago) <author>
Reminder
log
Shows all parent commits of your version with few informations (authors, date and message).
$ git log
Shows the log for <file>
$ git log <file>