Pretty git Log

SO you dislike git log output in console like me and do not use it... Because it looks like so:
How about this one?

It's quite easy...
Just type:

git log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --

It may be hard to enter such an easy command every time. Let's make an alias instead... Copypaste this to your terminal:

git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --"

And use simple command to see this pretty log instead:

git lg

Now in case you want to see lines that changed use:

git lg -p
In order for this command to work remove the -- from the end of the alias.

May the code be with you!

NOTE: this article is a rewritten copy of http://coderwall.com/p/euwpig?i=3&p=1&t=git and have been put here only in purpose of note to myself.  However you may use for your own needs...


UPD2: And unless you're a contributor of the git project and have written at least part of original code and/or documentation that does this trick... Then you probably stole the idea. ;) (IMHO)

Comments

  1. I wonder whether it was you who just ripped http://coderwall.com/p/euwpig?i=3&p=1&t=git verbatim or the other way round. One of you is not giving proper credit, though.

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    1. Thanks for note. Gave a proper credit to author of the idea here... But article is my own experience according to his one..

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    2. I implemented it as two pieces:

      git config --global alias.graph 'log --format=damn-awesome --graph'
      git config --global pretty.damn-awesome = '%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset'

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  3. Something else you could try is setting the "format.pretty" config option either globally or local to the repository. That would keep you from having to use an alias.

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    1. SO setting an alias considered 'bad'? why?

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    2. If you use both you can clean up a lot the alias definition and can reuse the format definition in other contexts:

      [pretty]
      graph = %Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset

      [alias]
      lg = log --pretty=graph

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