By default, ANSI color is turned off. You can enable it globally with the following command:
git config --global --add color.ui true
or on a per-repo basis:
git config --add color.ui true
Use git lg instead! type this:
git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative"
or
git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"
And every time you need to see your log, just type in git lg or, if you want to see the lines that changed git lg -p
To get a clean summary of all the changes of a project do:
git shortlog --no-merges master
or to specify since:
git shortlog --no-merges master --not hash