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 -p {{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 whose messages include a given string (case-insensitively):

git log -i --grep {{search_string}}

• Show the last N commits from a certain author:

git log -n {{number}} --author={{author}}

• Show commits between two dates:

git log --before={{date}} --after={{date}}