log at the command line

There are a large number of flags you can add to log to control its output. In creating the lg alias, we already saw how to use log -–oneline:

Figure 9.9: Using log at the command line

Looking closely, we see that the left column has the short ID, the right column lists the messages associated with each commit, and for both the first and last commits, we also see where the head pointer is; both locally and on origin.

Which files changed?

If you want to know which files were changed in each commit but not see what those changes were, you would use:

git log ––name-only

Here is an excerpt:

Figure 9.10: Using log to see file changes

We see two commits. The first, in Program.cs, has the message Call the add function, and you can also see the full ID, the author, and when this commit was made.

You can of course do the same thing with our lg alias to condense the output:

Figure 9.11: Using...