Git log#

$ git log [-n COUNT]

list the commit history of the current branch.

$ git log [--after="YYYY-MM-DD"] [--before="YYYY-MM-DD"]

Commit history filtered by date.

Relative information such as 1 week ago or yesterday is also permitted.

$ git log --author="NAME"

filters the commit history by authors.

You can also search for several authors at the same time, for example

$ git log --author="VEIT|VSC"

$ git log --grep = "TERM"

filters the commit history for regular expressions in the commit message.

See also

$ git log -S"FOO"

filters commits according to certain lines in the source code.

$ git log -G"BA*"

filters commits based on regular expressions in the source code.

$ git log -- PATH/TO/FOO.PY

filters the commit history for specific files.

$ git log MAIN ..FEATURE

filters for different commits in different branches, in our case between the branches main and feature.

However, this is not the same as $ git log FEATURE..MAIN. Let’s take the following example.

A - B main
 \
  C - D feature

$ git log MAIN..FEATURE: shows changes in FEATURE that are not contained in MAIN, that are the commits C and D.
$ git log FEATURE..MAIN: shows changes in MAIN that are not contained in FEATURE, that is the commit B.
$ git log MAIN...FEATURE: shows the changes on both sides, the commits B, C and D.

$ git log --oneline --graph --decorate

Show the history diagram with references, one commit per line.

$ git log REF..

List commits that exist in the current branch and are not merged into ref. ref can be the name of a branch or a tag.

$ git log ..REF

List commits that exist in ref and are not merged with the current branch.

$ git reflog

List operations (for example switch, commit) that have been performed in the local repository.