[Git]: log

git

09/24/2019

BASH

$ git log

Lists the commits made in the repo in reverse chronological order
-4 flag shows 4 most recent commits
Output:

TEXT

$ git log -4
commit f9089e71kdiendjef437d2948200bfaf86e00ce4 (HEAD -> master, origin/master)
Author: Ellis Min
Date:   Tue Sep 24 15:23:21 2019 -0500

    modified post

commit 1a918ba16oriejc01ea3353c68b81a420b42d039
Author: Ellis Min
Date:   Tue Sep 24 15:18:16 2019 -0500

    modified post

commit ppe31720765e33cdec6c3f50c16b662f51eb29c1
Author: Ellis Min
Date:   Tue Sep 24 15:16:33 2019 -0500

    modified post

commit db020060bad7ebf2e286d2a52574f055fd27b454
Author: Ellis Min
Date:   Tue Sep 24 15:13:57 2019 -0500

    modified post
: <!-- press q to quit -->

BASH

$ git log -p

Displays the differences (-p for -patch)
Output:

TEXT

$ git log -p -1
commit f9089e719eac344ef437d2948200bfaf86e00ce4 (HEAD -> master, origin/master)
Author: Ellis Min
Date:   Tue Sep 24 15:23:21 2019 -0500

    modified post

diff --git a/_posts/2019-04-15-sample_post.md b/_posts/2019-04-15-sample_post.md
index adfc823..59caefb 100644
--- a/_posts/2019-04-15-sample_post.md
+++ b/_posts/2019-04-15-sample_post.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: "Sample Post"
 date: 2019-04-15
-tags:
+tags: [Markdown]
 header:
   image:
 excerpt: "My first post"
@@ -79,4 +79,21 @@ line breaks
     Using
 pre tag   within
   div container.
-</div>
\ No newline at end of file
+</div>
+
+### Similar code snippets for shell/bash
+
+* shell
+```shell
+$ git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s"
+```
+
+* 
+```
+$ git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s"
+```
+
+* bash
+```bash
+$ git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s"
+```
\ No newline at end of file

BASH

$ git log --stat

Shows abbreviated stats for each commit
Output:

TEXT

$ git log --stat -2
commit 8291cfac2c051fe857dfadcd44a19eb7820d94ba (HEAD -> master, origin/master)
Author: Ellis Min <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Sep 24 15:53:07 2019 -0500

    modified post

 _posts/2019-09-25-gitlog.md | 85 ++++-----------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)

commit 4667df2269ff2adcaf0943f35882a8b5b3f918d9
Author: Ellis Min <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Sep 24 15:51:16 2019 -0500

    modified post

 _posts/2019-09-25-gitlog.md     |  2 --
 _posts/2019-09-25-stringfunc.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

BASH

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

--pretty tag changes log output to differnet formats
Output:

TEXT

$ git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s" -3
753f534 - Ellis Min, 2 minutes ago : modified post
e54279b - Ellis Min, 4 minutes ago : modified post
8291cfa - Ellis Min, 10 minutes ago : modified post

BASH

$ git log --oneline -4

Prints last 4 commits on a single line
same as:

BASH

$ git log --pretty=oneline -4

Output:

TEXT

$ git log --oneline -4
753f534 (HEAD -> master, origin/master) modified post
e54279b modified post
8291cfa modified post
4667df2 modified post

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Ellis Min

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