You’re in the less program, which makes the output of git log scrollable. Type q to exit this screen. Type h to get help. If you don’t want to read the output in a pager and want it to be just printed to the terminal define the environment variable GIT_PAGER to cat or set core.pager … Read more
This works for both git log and gitk – the 2 most common ways of viewing history. You don’t need to use the whole name: git log –author=”Jon” will match a commit made by “Jonathan Smith” git log –author=Jon and git log –author=Smith would also work. The quotes are optional if you don’t need any … Read more
Update 2: I’ve posted an improved version of this answer to the Visualizing branch topology in Git question, since it’s far more appropriate there. That version includes lg3, which shows both the author and committer info, so you really should check it out. Leaving this answer for historical (& rep, I’ll admit) reasons, though I’m … Read more
This gives a log of all commits between origin/master and HEAD: git log origin/master..HEAD When HEAD is on the master branch, this gives a log of unpushed commits. Similarly, to view the diff: git diff origin/master..HEAD
This lets Git generate the patches for each log entry: git log -p — filename See git help log for more options — it can actually do a lot of nice things. 🙂 To get just the diff for a specific commit, use git show HEAD or specify any other revision by identifier. To browse … Read more