"git lg" alias for pretty git log

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# From http://garmoncheg.blogspot.com/2012/06/pretty-git-log.html
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 --"

You might also want to:

• Remove "forced" --color (e.g. piping)
• tformat instead of format (tl;dr: newline at the end of the command)

git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --pretty=tformat:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --decorate=full"

You can also change -%C(yellow)%d%Creset to -%C(auto)%d%Creset if you want your branches to be different colors

Thanks

muchas gracias crack!

un capo total

nice, thank you

You can also change -%C(yellow)%d%Creset to -%C(auto)%d%Creset if you want your branches to be different colors

for posterity:

git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --pretty=tformat:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(auto)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --decorate=full"

gracias de nuevo capo

Thanks for the snippets

I prefer to set up an alias in ~/.bashrc, so that I can simply execute the gl command directly,

alias gl="git log --abbrev-commit --graph --pretty=tformat:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(auto)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%ci) %Cblue%an <%ae>%Creset'"