Commit History
Viewing Old Commits
The primary command to show the history of commits is git log. It has more options, parameters, bells, whistles, colorizers, selectors, formatters, and doodads than the fabled ls. But don’t worry. Just as with ls, you don’t need to learn all the details right away.
In its parameterless form, git log acts like
git log HEAD, printing the log message associated
with every commit in your history that is reachable from
HEAD. Changes are shown starting with the
HEAD commit and working back through the graph.
They are likely to be in roughly reverse chronological order, but
recall Git adheres to the commit graph, not time, when traveling back
over the history.
If you supply a commit à la git log
commit, the log starts at the
named commit and works backward. This form of the command is useful
for viewing the history of a branch:
$ git log master commit 1fbb58b4153e90eda08c2b022ee32d90729582e6 Merge: 58949bb... 76bb40c... Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Date: Thu May 15 01:31:15 2008 -0700 Merge git://repo.or.cz/git-gui * git://repo.or.cz/git-gui: git-gui: Delete branches with 'git branch -D' to clear config git-gui: Setup branch.remote,merge for shorthand git-pull git-gui: Update German translation git-gui: Don't use '$$cr master' with aspell earlier than 0.60 git-gui: Report less precise object estimates for database compression commit 58949bb18a1610d109e64e997c41696e0dfe97c3 Author: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net> Date: Wed May 14 19:22:18 ...Get Version Control with Git now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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