6 git-log - Show commit logs
12 'git log' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[\--] <path>...]
16 Shows the commit logs.
18 The command takes options applicable to the 'git rev-list'
19 command to control what is shown and how, and options applicable to
20 the 'git diff-*' commands to control how the changes
21 each commit introduces are shown.
28 Continue listing the history of a file beyond renames
29 (works only for a single file).
32 --decorate[=short|full|no]::
33 Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown. If 'short' is
34 specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/', 'refs/tags/' and
35 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is specified, the
36 full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. The default option
40 Print out the ref name given on the command line by which each
44 Use mailmap file to map author and committer names and email
45 to canonical real names and email addresses. See
46 linkgit:git-shortlog[1].
49 Without this flag, "git log -p <path>..." shows commits that
50 touch the specified paths, and diffs about the same specified
51 paths. With this, the full diff is shown for commits that touch
52 the specified paths; this means that "<path>..." limits only
53 commits, and doesn't limit diff for those commits.
55 Note that this affects all diff-based output types, e.g. those
56 produced by --stat etc.
59 Before the log message print out its size in bytes. Intended
60 mainly for porcelain tools consumption. If Git is unable to
61 produce a valid value size is set to zero.
62 Note that only message is considered, if also a diff is shown
63 its size is not included.
66 Show only commits in the specified revision range. When no
67 <revision range> is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the
68 whole history leading to the current commit). `origin..HEAD`
69 specifies all the commits reachable from the current commit
70 (i.e. `HEAD`), but not from `origin`. For a complete list of
71 ways to spell <revision range>, see the "Specifying Ranges"
72 section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
75 Show only commits that are enough to explain how the files
76 that match the specified paths came to be. See "History
77 Simplification" below for details and other simplification
80 Paths may need to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from
81 options or the revision range, when confusion arises.
83 include::rev-list-options.txt[]
85 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
91 include::diff-options.txt[]
93 include::diff-generate-patch.txt[]
97 `git log --no-merges`::
99 Show the whole commit history, but skip any merges
101 `git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi`::
103 Show all commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any file
104 in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
106 `git log --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk`::
108 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'.
109 The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named
112 `git log --name-status release..test`::
114 Show the commits that are in the "test" branch but not yet
115 in the "release" branch, along with the list of paths
116 each commit modifies.
118 `git log --follow builtin-rev-list.c`::
120 Shows the commits that changed builtin-rev-list.c, including
121 those commits that occurred before the file was given its
124 `git log --branches --not --remotes=origin`::
126 Shows all commits that are in any of local branches but not in
127 any of remote-tracking branches for 'origin' (what you have that
130 `git log master --not --remotes=*/master`::
132 Shows all commits that are in local master but not in any remote
133 repository master branches.
135 `git log -p -m --first-parent`::
137 Shows the history including change diffs, but only from the
138 "main branch" perspective, skipping commits that come from merged
139 branches, and showing full diffs of changes introduced by the merges.
140 This makes sense only when following a strict policy of merging all
141 topic branches when staying on a single integration branch.
144 Limits the number of commits to show to 3.
154 See linkgit:git-config[1] for core variables and linkgit:git-diff[1]
155 for settings related to diff generation.
158 Default for the `--format` option. (See "PRETTY FORMATS" above.)
159 Defaults to "medium".
161 i18n.logOutputEncoding::
162 Encoding to use when displaying logs. (See "Discussion", above.)
163 Defaults to the value of `i18n.commitEncoding` if set, UTF-8
167 Default format for human-readable dates. (Compare the
168 `--date` option.) Defaults to "default", which means to write
169 dates like `Sat May 8 19:35:34 2010 -0500`.
172 If `false`, 'git log' and related commands will not treat the
173 initial commit as a big creation event. Any root commits in
174 `git log -p` output would be shown without a diff attached.
175 The default is `true`.
178 See linkgit:git-shortlog[1].
181 Which refs, in addition to the default set by `core.notesRef`
182 or 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit
183 messages with the 'log' family of commands. See
184 linkgit:git-notes[1].
186 May be an unabbreviated ref name or a glob and may be specified
187 multiple times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist,
188 but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored.
190 This setting can be disabled by the `--no-notes` option,
191 overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable,
192 and overridden by the `--notes=<ref>` option.
196 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite