Questions tagged [git-log]
Shows the commit logs of a Git repo
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How to search specified string which introduced by merge commit?
Is there a way to search for a specific string introduced from a merge commit?
git log -S won't work and git log -m -p | less is too slow.
To reproduce the the problem, given the setup:
git init -b a
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Git Log between tags show commits from another tag
I am executing a command to get a commits between two tags:
git log --merges '7.0.8'...'7.0.9' --oneline
Apart from commits that are between these two tags, I also receive some commit that was made ...
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Git log -p -- <file> shows a commit with no patch
I asked git to show me all the commits that modified a certain file, and it produced what I asked, except some commits show no modification to said file (and so instead only the commit hash/author/...
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"git log --all" - show multiple stashes
While using git, I noticed that my git GUI client (Git Extensions) shows all stashes I have if "show unrelated histories" is enabled - see below screenshot.
However, when looking at "...
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No commit history with git log --follow after renaming folder with different case
I've had troubles after renaming a folder Draft to draft on macOS.
The commands are below:
cd path/to/Draft
cd ..
git checkout main
git config core.ignorecase false
# git mv Draft draft # Failed ...
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Git auto created a FILE with git logs inside it
While pushing my commits to the remote branch and after staging files with git add ., Git unexpectedly created a new file named h containing commit logs. I'm unsure why this happened since I hadn't ...
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Git log --since not working as expected for 1 day timeframe
git log --since=1.day command displaying commits from June 27th despite today being July 3rd.
I'm encountering an issue with the git log --since=1.day command in Git. According to the Git ...
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How to select a file from browser and see its log?
I have been using git for a while now, mostly through git gui, which is fine by me. However, I did not find a better way to go through a file history than using the command git log -p --follow -- ...
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Search git history by file content
I have a tarball from a point in time from a multi-year project. The tarball was supposedly from a particular release, and the project tags the commit corresponding to each release. However, the ...
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Compare git branches with Cherry picked PR merged
I tried to compare 2 branches with branch strategy: branches strategy
I have a development branch named S. Some works are done in temporary branches (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2) then merged into ...
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Inconsistent git log results when filtering by directory
I’m encountering an odd behavior with git log when filtering by a specific directory. Here’s the command I’m using:
18:05:04 ~/Documents/01_repo/b2b-crm (uat)
└─▶ $ git log --name-status --oneline --...
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Unable to register git `log` alias using CMD
I am trying to alias a log command using Windows CMD (using " because of Windows, see this answer):
git log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h %C(red)%ad %C(brightcyan)%d %C(white)%s" --date=...
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Show Git subtree commit history when --squash option was used
Is there any way to show only subtree history, like with git log but filtering only specific subtree's related commits?
When I add a subtree with --squash option only a merge commit is shown, but the ...
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How can I get `git log` to append ellipsis after the commit subject line if the message body is non-empty?
E.g. suppose this is what my git history looks like:
$ git log --oneline
f9b86d3 (HEAD -> main) blah the baz
966a640 foobar the frob
ac27e4d Revert "do something special"
338ff0f do ...
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Git log of a specific branch already merged
I'm trying to update a documentation script in Python, as my coworkers and I have recently started working with GIT.
The point I'm at and stuck with now is trying to extract a list of the names of ...
