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Tuan Luong
Tuan Luong

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Pretty git log

#macos #git #log #pretty

If you are seeing that default git log is not visual and hard to read. You can try to do some customizes by using --graph and --pretty.

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

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"
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Finally

git lg
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Let try to update colors as you like.
Happy coding!

Source: https://coderwall.com/p/euwpig/a-better-git-log

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