git log
Show a history of commits. More information: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log.
- Show the sequence of commits starting from the current one, in reverse chronological order of the Git repository in the current working directory:
git log
- Show the history of a particular file or directory, including differences:
git log {{-p|-u|--patch}} {{path/to/file_or_directory}}
- Show an overview of which file(s) changed in each commit:
git log --stat
- Show a graph of commits in the current branch using only the first line of each commit message:
git log --oneline --graph
- Show a graph of all commits, tags and branches in the entire repo:
git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph
- Show only commits with messages that include a specific string, ignoring case:
git log {{-i|--regexp-ignore-case}} --grep {{search_string}}
- Show the last N number of commits from a certain author:
git log {{-n|--max-count}} {{number}} --author "{{author}}"
- Show commits between two dates (yyyy-mm-dd):
git log --before "{{2017-01-29}}" --after "{{2017-01-17}}"