My git log custom output aliases

git_log.md

git config --global alias.hist "log --pretty=format:'%h %ad | %s%d [%an]' --graph --date=short"
git config --global alias.lol "log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --all"
git config --global alias.mylog "log --pretty=format:'%h %s [%an]' --graph"

To check that they've been added correctly, first run git config --list. You should see something like this in the midst of all your other configuration:

alias.hist=log --pretty=format:"%h %ad | %s%d [%an]" --graph --date=short
alias.lol=log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --all
alias.mylog=log --pretty=format:'%h %s [%an]' --graph

Then the output of each should look like this.

Hist

* f164e73 2012-08-01 | Enroll button doesn't say free (HEAD, production/master, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) [Dan Denney]
* 2192f52 2012-08-01 | Remove free play off [Adam Rensel]
* ea5ee21 2012-07-29 | Added in video download links to level pages (closes #72) [Eric Allam]
* bebb867 2012-07-27 | Fixed the course name [Eric Allam]
* 96e110e 2012-07-28 | Use double quotes so we don't get username conflicts with people who have hyphens in there names [Adam Rensel]
* 7c7f019 2012-07-27 | level nav says 'challenges' instead of 'level' for status [Dan Denney]
* 10ddfcd 2012-07-27 | All rebase related attempts will output the same error message [Adam Rensel]

LOL

* f164e73 (HEAD, production/master, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Enroll button doesn't say free
* 2192f52 Remove free play off
* ea5ee21 Added in video download links to level pages (closes #72)
* bebb867 Fixed the course name
* 96e110e Use double quotes so we don't get username conflicts with people who have hyphens in there names
* 7c7f019 level nav says 'challenges' instead of 'level' for status
* 10ddfcd All rebase related attempts will output the same error message

MyLog

* f164e73 Enroll button doesn't say free [Dan Denney]
* 2192f52 Remove free play off [Adam Rensel]
* ea5ee21 Added in video download links to level pages (closes #72) [Eric Allam]
* bebb867 Fixed the course name [Eric Allam]
* 96e110e Use double quotes so we don't get username conflicts with people who have hyphens in there names [Adam Rensel]
* 7c7f019 level nav says 'challenges' instead of 'level' for status [Dan Denney]
* 10ddfcd All rebase related attempts will output the same error message [Adam Rensel]

Nice ones! I'm using lol, and take some ideas to improve my workflow, thanks!

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haha, I figured someone would have the lol alias as me.

mine was a tiny bit diff, you can replace --pretty=oneline with --oneline works the same way, and didn't have that abbrev commit thing

anyway, using your git lol now, thanks.

Great ones!

You can also add color, show refs, and only last 10 commits:

git config --global alias.hist "log --pretty=format:'%Cgreen%h%Creset %ai | %s %Cblue[%an] %Cred%d' --date=short -n 10 --color"