Git log output log file

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I am doing an assignment in a university course and I am using Git as version control for this assignment. The game I have been working on is complete. However, along with the hand in I would like to submit the Git log, effectively showing my progress during the time I have been working on it.

I have tried this:

git log --stat > log.log

But it more or less just gives me very unreadable stuff. What is a command so that I can get a nice formatting on this?

What do you want the output to focus on? The commit messages? The branching? The dates? The files? The changes? — GoZoner
– GoZoner, Commented Apr 8, 2012 at 15:44

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-06 04:09:14Z

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I would recommend using a different format than the default. My usual choice is a summary with the graph, but a one-line summary alone usually does the trick.

Option 1: One-line summary with a graph

git log --pretty=format:'%h : %s' --graph > log.log

Results in:

* 2d3acf9 : ignore errors from SIGCHLD on trap
*   5e3ee11 : Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/dustin/grit
|\
| * 420eac9 : Added a method for getting the current branch.
* | 30e367c : timeout code and tests
* | 5a09431 : add timeout protection to grit
* | e1193f8 : support for heads with slashes in them
|/
* d6016bc : require time for xmlschema

Option 2: One-line summary without a graph

git log --pretty=format:'%h was %an, %ar, message: %s' > log.log

Results in:

a6b444f was Scott Chacon, 5 days ago, message: dammit, this is the second time this has re
49d77f7 was Scott Chacon, 8 days ago, message: modified index to create refs/heads if it i
9764edd was Hans Engel, 11 days ago, message: Add diff-lcs dependency
e1ba1e3 was Hans Engel, 11 days ago, message: Add dependency for Open4
0f87b4d was Scott Chacon, 12 days ago, message: merged recent changes

You can find more formatting options in the documentation here.

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4 Comments

Marian Klühspies Over a year ago

I´m getting Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

Eric Majerus Over a year ago

One can find the format placeholders at git-scm.com/docs/git-log. Search for sub-heading "pretty formats"

Erick Brown Over a year ago

FYI: I know this answer is old but the "docs" link is broken. I'm certainly not going to do what others have done to me: Down vote my answer like 3, 4 or 5+ years later due to the link going bad later in time. I've submitted an edit to point to git-scm.com (git-scm.com/docs/pretty-formats) FYI.

Coded Container Over a year ago

Invalid object name %h

Mayur · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-14 03:43:54Z

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Try this line

git log > log.txt

answered Mar 14, 2015 at 3:43

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Jonathan Over a year ago

This is the base answer, all I needed.

Robin Hsu Over a year ago

git log alone will show tags and branches (all branches, including remote branches) on the console. However, git log > log.txt will not have those tag/branch information. I really want to know how to make them the same (i.e. get output with tag/branch infos)

TEDDY · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-14 04:11:49Z

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git log --oneline --decorate > log.txt

answered Mar 14, 2015 at 4:11

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