How to Find Commit Details with Pretty Cool Format

Itacen Sabacok | Aug 1, 2022

to get this pretty cool format, we use --pretty parameter in git-cli. Find more details by running git log --help command.

1git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s"

Output:

Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3
0732f805a Odilie Emilia 4 days ago Merge branch ‘master’ into rc/testing
35bb34295 Odilie Emilia 5 days ago COMPONENT DEPLOYMENT - Release 8.3.4 Patch
e150e1914 Santi Oriana 11 days ago COMPONENT DEPLOYMENT - Development - kafka version upgrade
0732f805a Santi Oriana 11 days ago Merge remote-tracking branch ‘origin/master’ into rc/2023-01-01
0732f805a Santi Oriana 13 days ago Revert Merge pull request ‘kafka admin java tool options’ (#423) from feature/kafka-upgrade into develop

1# This shows a nice graph about your branch and merge history
2git log --pretty=format:"%h %s" --graph

Output:

Disk 0 Disk 1
* 0732f805a Merge branch ‘master’ into rc/testing
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| * 35bb34295 COMPONENT DEPLOYMENT - Release 8.3.4 Patch
| |\
| | * e150e1914 COMPONENT DEPLOYMENT - Development - kafka version upgrade
| | * ec31apsb8 Merge remote-tracking branch ‘origin/master’ into rc/2023-01-01
| | |\