Display last git commit comment

Question

Often during a commit ($ git -commit -m ""), I wish to read my last comment to remember what progress I have made. Is there an easy way to directly access the last commit message through command-line? (I'm using Windows.)

Answer 1

git show 

is the fastest to type, but shows you the diff as well.

git log -1 

is fast and simple.

git log -1 --pretty=%B 

if you need just the commit message and nothing else.

Answer 2

Generally:

git log -n 

will show you the last n commit messages

More elegantly - if you want a quick overview of your commits

git log --oneline -n 

This will show just the first line of the last n commit messages.

You can save this as a git alias or a shell alias with a shorter command. I've got it in my shell as glog, for example, and I can see my last 10 commit messages with glog -10.