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 There are several built-in formats, and you can define
15 additional formats by setting a pretty.<name>
16 config option to either another format name, or a
17 'format:' string, as described below (see
18 linkgit:git-config[1]). Here are the details of the
25 This is designed to be as compact as possible.
58 AuthorDate: <author date>
60 CommitDate: <committer date>
71 Subject: [PATCH] <title line>
77 The 'raw' format shows the entire commit exactly as
78 stored in the commit object. Notably, the SHA1s are
79 displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
80 --no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the
81 true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
82 simplification into account.
86 The 'format:<string>' format allows you to specify which information
87 you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format,
88 with the notable exception that you get a newline with '%n'
91 E.g, 'format:"The author of %h was %an, %ar%nThe title was >>%s<<%n"'
92 would show something like this:
95 The author of fe6e0ee was Junio C Hamano, 23 hours ago
96 The title was >>t4119: test autocomputing -p<n> for traditional diff input.<<
100 The placeholders are:
103 - '%h': abbreviated commit hash
105 - '%t': abbreviated tree hash
106 - '%P': parent hashes
107 - '%p': abbreviated parent hashes
109 - '%aN': author name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
110 - '%ae': author email
111 - '%aE': author email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
112 - '%ad': author date (format respects --date= option)
113 - '%aD': author date, RFC2822 style
114 - '%ar': author date, relative
115 - '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
116 - '%ai': author date, ISO 8601 format
117 - '%cn': committer name
118 - '%cN': committer name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
119 - '%ce': committer email
120 - '%cE': committer email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
121 - '%cd': committer date
122 - '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style
123 - '%cr': committer date, relative
124 - '%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp
125 - '%ci': committer date, ISO 8601 format
126 - '%d': ref names, like the --decorate option of linkgit:git-log[1]
129 - '%f': sanitized subject line, suitable for a filename
131 - '%B': raw body (unwrapped subject and body)
133 - '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@\{1\}`
134 - '%gd': shortened reflog selector, e.g., `stash@\{1\}`
135 - '%gs': reflog subject
136 - '%Cred': switch color to red
137 - '%Cgreen': switch color to green
138 - '%Cblue': switch color to blue
139 - '%Creset': reset color
140 - '%C(...)': color specification, as described in color.branch.* config option
141 - '%m': left, right or boundary mark
144 - '%x00': print a byte from a hex code
145 - '%w([<w>[,<i1>[,<i2>]]])': switch line wrapping, like the -w option of
146 linkgit:git-shortlog[1].
148 NOTE: Some placeholders may depend on other options given to the
149 revision traversal engine. For example, the `%g*` reflog options will
150 insert an empty string unless we are traversing reflog entries (e.g., by
151 `git log -g`). The `%d` placeholder will use the "short" decoration
152 format if `--decorate` was not already provided on the command line.
154 If you add a `{plus}` (plus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, a line-feed
155 is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
156 placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
158 If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, line-feeds that
159 immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the
160 placeholder expands to an empty string.
162 If you add a ` ` (space) after '%' of a placeholder, a space
163 is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
164 placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
168 The 'tformat:' format works exactly like 'format:', except that it
169 provides "terminator" semantics instead of "separator" semantics. In
170 other words, each commit has the message terminator character (usually a
171 newline) appended, rather than a separator placed between entries.
172 This means that the final entry of a single-line format will be properly
173 terminated with a new line, just as the "oneline" format does.
176 ---------------------
177 $ git log -2 --pretty=format:%h 4da45bef \
178 | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
180 7134973 -- NO NEWLINE
182 $ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef \
183 | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
186 ---------------------
188 In addition, any unrecognized string that has a `%` in it is interpreted
189 as if it has `tformat:` in front of it. For example, these two are
192 ---------------------
193 $ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef
194 $ git log -2 --pretty=%h 4da45bef
195 ---------------------