Lists all commits of the local repository

git log

Lists all commits each on one line (only commit identifier and commit message)

git log --pretty=oneline

Almost the same as the above command. But the commit identifier is shortened (only the first several symbols)

git log --oneline

If we are on

master

and we want to see other branch's commits

git log another_branch

After fetching new commits from remote, we can see the new commits (even if we are on

master

)

git log origin/master --oneline

Shows some abbreviated stats for each commit

git log --stat

It shows all commits in the history of branches, tags and other refs, but it does not show commits that are not reachable from any ref

git log --all

We can even specify a format of the commits history

git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s"

Where:

%h

is the commit identifier

%an

- author of the commit

%ar

- how much time ego was created

%s

- message of the commit The format result:

a11bef0 - Scott Chacon, 6 years ago : Initial commit

... Funny format which will result in:

54d459d by VLR, which created the commit 28 hours ago with comment: some messagee

git log --pretty=format:"%h by %an, which created the commit %ar with comment: %s"