Working with Well-Known Repositories - Git Recipes - page 32

Value Description
oneline The name and the comment printed in one line.
short The name, the author, and the comment

Same as short but augmented with the revision's date

medium

The name, the author, the committer, and the comment

full

The name, the author, the author's date, the committer, the commit's date, and the com-
ment

fuller

Same as short in email format

email

Low-level revision's information: the name, the tree, the parent revision's name, the au-
thor, and the committer with timestamps

raw

format User-defined format

The parameters shown in Table 2-3 can be passed to a git log command as:

$ git log --pretty=oneline
$ git log --pretty=short
$ git log --pretty=raw

The value --pretty=oneline can be shortened to:

$ git log --oneline

Additional parameters that influence the format are:

--abbrev-commit —this option turns on abbreviations.

--abbrev=n —this option sets the length of the abbreviated names.

--decorate —this option includes tags and branches for each revi-
sion.

The shortest possible abbreviation has to contain four characters. Thus, the minimal
value for --abbrev is four:

$ git log --abbrev-commit --abbrev=4

Hint The parameter --oneline abbreviates SHA-1 to seven characters.