Pro Git book notes

Argument "-p" stands for listing patchs in git log and the number can be used to limit the number of commit that should be printed

   git log -p -3

The following arguments can be used with git log:

--stat
--pretty
- --pretty=oneline
- --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s"
- --pretty=format:'%h %s' --graph

Table 1 Specifiers for git log –pretty=format ¹

Specifier	Output description
%H	Commit hash
%h	Abbreviated commit hash
%T	Tree hash
%t	Abbreviated tree hash
%P	Parent hashes
%p	Abbreviated parent hashes
%an	Author name
%ae	Author email
%ad	Author date (format respects the –date=option)
%ar	Author date, relative
%cn	Committer name
%ce	Committer email
%cd	Committer date
%cr	Committer date, relative
%s	Subject

From Pro Git book

Limiting git log options

   git log --since=2.weeks

  git log --until="2021-01-15"

Look for commits that changed the occurrences of a string

  git log -S string_name

Filter by path

  git log -- directory/