PRETTY FORMATS -------------- If the commit is a merge, and if the pretty-format is not 'oneline', 'email' or 'raw', an additional line is inserted before the 'Author:' line. This line begins with "Merge: " and the sha1s of ancestral commits are printed, separated by spaces. Note that the listed commits may not necessarily be the list of the *direct* parent commits if you have limited your view of history: for example, if you are only interested in changes related to a certain directory or file. Here are some additional details for each format: * 'oneline' + This is designed to be as compact as possible. * 'short' commit <sha1> Author: <author> <title line> * 'medium' commit <sha1> Author: <author> Date: <author date> <title line> <full commit message> * 'full' commit <sha1> Author: <author> Commit: <committer> <title line> <full commit message> * 'fuller' commit <sha1> Author: <author> AuthorDate: <author date> Commit: <committer> CommitDate: <committer date> <title line> <full commit message> * 'email' From <sha1> <date> From: <author> Date: <author date> Subject: [PATCH] <title line> <full commit message> * 'raw' + The 'raw' format shows the entire commit exactly as stored in the commit object. Notably, the SHA1s are displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or --no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history simplification into account. * 'format:' + The 'format:' format allows you to specify which information you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format, with the notable exception that you get a newline with '%n' instead of '\n'. + E.g, 'format:"The author of %h was %an, %ar%nThe title was >>%s<<%n"' would show something like this: + ------- The author of fe6e0ee was Junio C Hamano, 23 hours ago The title was >>t4119: test autocomputing -p<n> for traditional diff input.<< -------- + The placeholders are: - '%H': commit hash - '%h': abbreviated commit hash - '%T': tree hash - '%t': abbreviated tree hash - '%P': parent hashes - '%p': abbreviated parent hashes - '%an': author name - '%aN': author name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1]) - '%ae': author email - '%aE': author email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1]) - '%ad': author date (format respects --date= option) - '%aD': author date, RFC2822 style - '%ar': author date, relative - '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp - '%ai': author date, ISO 8601 format - '%cn': committer name - '%cN': committer name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1]) - '%ce': committer email - '%cE': committer email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1]) - '%cd': committer date - '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style - '%cr': committer date, relative - '%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp - '%ci': committer date, ISO 8601 format - '%d': ref names, like the --decorate option of linkgit:git-log[1] - '%e': encoding - '%s': subject - '%f': sanitized subject line, suitable for a filename - '%b': body - '%N': commit notes - '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@\{1\}` - '%gd': shortened reflog selector, e.g., `stash@\{1\}` - '%gs': reflog subject - '%Cred': switch color to red - '%Cgreen': switch color to green - '%Cblue': switch color to blue - '%Creset': reset color - '%C(...)': color specification, as described in color.branch.* config option - '%m': left, right or boundary mark - '%n': newline - '%x00': print a byte from a hex code NOTE: Some placeholders may depend on other options given to the revision traversal engine. For example, the `%g*` reflog options will insert an empty string unless we are traversing reflog entries (e.g., by `git log -g`). The `%d` placeholder will use the "short" decoration format if `--decorate` was not already provided on the command line. * 'tformat:' + The 'tformat:' format works exactly like 'format:', except that it provides "terminator" semantics instead of "separator" semantics. In other words, each commit has the message terminator character (usually a newline) appended, rather than a separator placed between entries. This means that the final entry of a single-line format will be properly terminated with a new line, just as the "oneline" format does. For example: + --------------------- $ git log -2 --pretty=format:%h 4da45bef \ | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/' 4da45be 7134973 -- NO NEWLINE $ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef \ | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/' 4da45be 7134973 --------------------- + In addition, any unrecognized string that has a `%` in it is interpreted as if it has `tformat:` in front of it. For example, these two are equivalent: + --------------------- $ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef $ git log -2 --pretty=%h 4da45bef ---------------------