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A custom alias for a pretty Git log with a graph
Clarice Bouwer
Software Engineering Team Lead and Director of Cloudsure
Thursday, 2 September 2021 · Estimated 3 minute read
I have added
a git alias for git log by editing the global config ~/.gitconfig so that it
is not localized to a specific git repository. I added the following below the
[alias] section 👇
alias.lg=log --pretty='%Cblue%h%Creset | %C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset %C(cyan)[%an]%Creset' --graph git lg will now print a pretty colored summarized log with a
graph to indicate branching and merges. My particular version displays a
- short hash
%hin blue followed by a pipe - ref names in yellow (HEAD -> master, origin/master)
%dlike the --decorate option of git-log - the message (or subject)
%s - the relative committer date
(%cr)- 2 months ago - in green and in parenthesis, and - the author name in cyan
[%an]in block brackets
...
* 28aed2c | Add HONOR_DNT env var (2 days ago) [Clarice Bouwer]
* 1e3e505 | Add track custom click event on anchors (2 days ago) [Clarice Bouwer]
* cf7dc67 | Upgrade to Google Analytics 4 (2 days ago) [Clarice Bouwer]
...instead of
...
commit 28aed2cbb6ee56f625f26b101bc1e5b0ee2bd18c
Author: Clarice Bouwer <cbillowes@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Sep 1 03:27:30 2021 +0400
Add HONOR_DNT env var
commit 1e3e50557c5ac659f19ce30a85f5d9bd3a53adab
Author: Clarice Bouwer <cbillowes@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Sep 1 03:26:13 2021 +0400
Add track custom click event on anchors
commit cf7dc679eb6b855d286dad8726b32d4afa8a372f
Author: Clarice Bouwer <cbillowes@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Aug 31 21:14:17 2021 +0400
Upgrade to Google Analytics 4
...A more complex example with a graph and a nonsensical history:
* 56380d6 | Merge branch 'master' of origin/master (1 year, 10 months ago) [Stephen Hawking]
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| * 7ac7c22 | Avast, me proud beauty (1 year, 10 months ago) [Sheldon Cooper]
* | d021f77 | Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly (1 year, 10 months ago) [Douglas Adams]
* | 1f56c7d | Have ya ever met a man with a real yardarm (1 year, 10 months ago) [George Martin]
* | 291af41 | Merge branch 'master' of origin/master (1 year, 10 months ago) [George Lucas]
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| * fb1496f | Come on up and see me urchins (1 year, 10 months ago) [Simon Pegg]
| * 72cc156 | Prepare to be boarded (1 year, 10 months ago) [Stan Lee]
| * a5d133d | I’ve sailed the seven seas, and you’re the sleekest schooner I’ve ever sighted (1 year, 10 months ago) [Don Tillman]
| * c75be35 | Let’s get together and haul some keel (1 year, 10 months ago) [Abby Sciuto]
| * d17b2a0 | What are YOU doing here (1 year, 10 months ago) [Xander Harris]
| * 98e5f2c | Merge branch 'master' of origin/master (1 year, 10 months ago) [Steve Urkel]
| |\
| * | 4727647 | Take what you can, give nothing back (1 year, 10 months ago) [Leonard Hofstadter]
* | | 478ebc2 | You can always trust the untrustworthy (1 year, 10 months ago) [Spencer Reid]
| |/
|/|
* | 60bbae5 | Merge branch 'master' of origin/master (1 year, 10 months ago) [Amy Farrah Fowler]
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| * 0fdc537 | If ye can’t trust a pirate, ye damn well can’t trust a merchant either (1 year, 10 months ago) [Carlton Banks]
| * a9c6557 | Merge branch 'master' of origin/master (1 year, 10 months ago) [Lisa Simpson]
| |\
| * | 5f4e047 | The existence of the sea means the existence of pirates (1 year, 10 months ago) [Ross Geller]
* | | 4f727e7 | Not all treasure is silver and gold (1 year, 10 months ago) [Adrian Monk]
| |/
|/|
* | 9645fc7 | Work like a captain, play like a pirate (1 year, 10 months ago) [Dexter Morgan]
|/
* d32cdee | Ahoy! lets trouble the water! (1 year, 10 months ago) [Hiro Nakamura]