tldr/pages/common/git-log.md

git log

Show a history of commits. More information: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log.

• Show the sequence of commits starting from the current one, in reverse chronological order of the Git repository in the current working directory:

git log

• Show the history of a particular file or directory, including differences:

git log {{--patch|-p|-u}} {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

• Show an overview of which file(s) changed in each commit:

git log --stat

• Show a graph of commits in the current branch using only the first line of each commit message:

git log --oneline --graph

• Show a graph of all commits, tags and branches in the entire repo:

git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph

• Show only commits with messages that include a specific string, ignoring case:

git log {{-i|--regexp-ignore-case}} --grep {{search_string}}

• Show the last N number of commits from a certain author:

git log {{--max-count|-n} {{number}} --author "{{author}}"

• Show commits between two dates (yyyy-mm-dd):

git log --before "{{2017-01-29}}" --after "{{2017-01-17}}"