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. There are several built-in formats, and you can define additional formats by setting a pretty. config option to either another format name, or a 'format:' string, as described below (see linkgit:git-config[1]). Here are the details of the built-in formats: * '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 SHA-1s are displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or --no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the true parent commits, without taking grafts or history simplification into account. * 'format:<string>' + The 'format:<string>' 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 - '%B': raw body (unwrapped subject and body) - '%N': commit notes - '%GG': raw verification message from GPG for a signed commit - '%G?': show "G" for a Good signature, "B" for a Bad signature, "U" for a good, untrusted signature and "N" for no signature - '%GS': show the name of the signer for a signed commit - '%GK': show the key used to sign a signed commit - '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}` - '%gd': shortened reflog selector, e.g., `stash@{1}` - '%gn': reflog identity name - '%gN': reflog identity name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1]) - '%ge': reflog identity email - '%gE': reflog identity email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[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; adding `auto,` at the beginning will emit color only when colors are enabled for log output (by `color.diff`, `color.ui`, or `--color`, and respecting the `auto` settings of the former if we are going to a terminal). `auto` alone (i.e. `%C(auto)`) will turn on auto coloring on the next placeholders until the color is switched again. - '%m': left, right or boundary mark - '%n': newline - '%%': a raw '%' - '%x00': print a byte from a hex code - '%w([<w>[,<i1>[,<i2>]]])': switch line wrapping, like the -w option of linkgit:git-shortlog[1]. - '%<(<N>[,trunc|ltrunc|mtrunc])': make the next placeholder take at least N columns, padding spaces on the right if necessary. Optionally truncate at the beginning (ltrunc), the middle (mtrunc) or the end (trunc) if the output is longer than N columns. Note that truncating only works correctly with N >= 2. - '%<|(<N>)': make the next placeholder take at least until Nth columns, padding spaces on the right if necessary - '%>(<N>)', '%>|(<N>)': similar to '%<(<N>)', '%<|(<N>)' respectively, but padding spaces on the left - '%>>(<N>)', '%>>|(<N>)': similar to '%>(<N>)', '%>|(<N>)' respectively, except that if the next placeholder takes more spaces than given and there are spaces on its left, use those spaces - '%><(<N>)', '%><|(<N>)': similar to '% <(<N>)', '%<|(<N>)' respectively, but padding both sides (i.e. the text is centered) 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. If you add a `+` (plus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, a line-feed is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the placeholder expands to a non-empty string. If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, line-feeds that immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the placeholder expands to an empty string. If you add a ` ` (space) after '%' of a placeholder, a space is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the placeholder expands to a non-empty string. * '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 ---------------------