4 If the commit is a merge, and if the pretty-format
5 is not 'oneline', 'email' or 'raw', an additional line is
6 inserted before the 'Author:' line. This line begins with
7 "Merge: " and the sha1s of ancestral commits are printed,
8 separated by spaces. Note that the listed commits may not
9 necessarily be the list of the *direct* parent commits if you
10 have limited your view of history: for example, if you are
11 only interested in changes related to a certain directory or
14 Here are some additional details for each format:
20 This is designed to be as compact as possible.
53 AuthorDate: <author date>
55 CommitDate: <committer date>
66 Subject: [PATCH] <title line>
72 The 'raw' format shows the entire commit exactly as
73 stored in the commit object. Notably, the SHA1s are
74 displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
75 --no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the
76 true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
77 simplification into account.
81 The 'format:' format allows you to specify which information
82 you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format,
83 with the notable exception that you get a newline with '%n'
86 E.g, 'format:"The author of %h was %an, %ar%nThe title was >>%s<<%n"'
87 would show something like this:
90 The author of fe6e0ee was Junio C Hamano, 23 hours ago
91 The title was >>t4119: test autocomputing -p<n> for traditional diff input.<<
98 - '%h': abbreviated commit hash
100 - '%t': abbreviated tree hash
101 - '%P': parent hashes
102 - '%p': abbreviated parent hashes
104 - '%aN': author name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
105 - '%ae': author email
106 - '%aE': author email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
107 - '%ad': author date (format respects --date= option)
108 - '%aD': author date, RFC2822 style
109 - '%ar': author date, relative
110 - '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
111 - '%ai': author date, ISO 8601 format
112 - '%cn': committer name
113 - '%cN': committer name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
114 - '%ce': committer email
115 - '%cE': committer email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
116 - '%cd': committer date
117 - '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style
118 - '%cr': committer date, relative
119 - '%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp
120 - '%ci': committer date, ISO 8601 format
121 - '%d': ref names, like the --decorate option of linkgit:git-log[1]
125 - '%Cred': switch color to red
126 - '%Cgreen': switch color to green
127 - '%Cblue': switch color to blue
128 - '%Creset': reset color
129 - '%C(...)': color specification, as described in color.branch.* config option
130 - '%m': left, right or boundary mark
132 - '%x00': print a byte from a hex code
136 The 'tformat:' format works exactly like 'format:', except that it
137 provides "terminator" semantics instead of "separator" semantics. In
138 other words, each commit has the message terminator character (usually a
139 newline) appended, rather than a separator placed between entries.
140 This means that the final entry of a single-line format will be properly
141 terminated with a new line, just as the "oneline" format does.
144 ---------------------
145 $ git log -2 --pretty=format:%h 4da45bef \
146 | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
148 7134973 -- NO NEWLINE
150 $ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef \
151 | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
154 ---------------------
156 In addition, any unrecognized string that has a `%` in it is interpreted
157 as if it has `tformat:` in front of it. For example, these two are
160 ---------------------
161 $ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef
162 $ git log -2 --pretty=%h 4da45bef
163 ---------------------