Git Log Views

Short & pretty with a graph

My favorite:

git log --pretty=format:"%h %s %an" --graph -14

%h hash abbreviated

%s subject

%an author name

-14 limits the output to only show the last 14 commits.

Example output:

*   5b26b0b Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/deepcelllineage/mitolin
|\
| * 937d24f edit folder structure, mitolin now has: gen, nb, src, and one example fastq (1eg33MBfastq)
| * 2e8ec82 renamed lab_notebook/ directory to nb/
| * 834be28 create nb directory for lab notebooks, add nb entry re farm on hpc, start vcf2fasta_v0.0.1.sh
| *   cda3eee Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master'
| |\
| * | ff43d91 some phylogenomic papers added
* | | 2849ed3 renamed lab_notebook/ directory to nb/
* | | 269ba03 create nb directory for lab notebooks, add nb entry re farm on hpc, start vcf2fasta_v0.0.1.sh
| |/
|/|
* |   04a65f7 Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/master'
|\ \
| |/
| * 83fc4a1 change folder hierarchy
| *   c663a78 Merge pull request #2 from mkeisenbach/mismatched
| |\
| | * 52b98a6 feat: add Python notebook and output files for mismatched filenames
| |/
* | 930adc2 add 'data/' to .gitignore
|/
* 4f7ecfc added 1 raw fastq file into nguyen_nc_2018/ind1 and r1 r2 lists to generated/

Make an alias

After I memorize this, I should make an alias for it.

alias gl='git log --pretty=format:"%h %s" --graph'

and put it into my .bash_profile

echo 'n/ alias gl='git log --pretty=format:"%h %s" --graph' >> ~/.bash_profile

Read more here:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-Commit-History