Git log output log file

Question

I am doing an assignment in a university course and I am using Git as version control for this assignment. The game I have been working on is complete. However, along with the hand in I would like to submit the Git log, effectively showing my progress during the time I have been working on it.

I have tried this:

git log --stat > log.log 

But it more or less just gives me very unreadable stuff. What is a command so that I can get a nice formatting on this?

Answer 1

I would recommend using a different format than the default. My usual choice is a summary with the graph, but a one-line summary alone usually does the trick.

Option 1: One-line summary with a graph

git log --pretty=format:'%h : %s' --graph > log.log 

Results in:

* 2d3acf9 : ignore errors from SIGCHLD on trap *   5e3ee11 : Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/dustin/grit |\ | * 420eac9 : Added a method for getting the current branch. * | 30e367c : timeout code and tests * | 5a09431 : add timeout protection to grit * | e1193f8 : support for heads with slashes in them |/ * d6016bc : require time for xmlschema 

Option 2: One-line summary without a graph

git log --pretty=format:'%h was %an, %ar, message: %s' > log.log 

Results in:

a6b444f was Scott Chacon, 5 days ago, message: dammit, this is the second time this has re 49d77f7 was Scott Chacon, 8 days ago, message: modified index to create refs/heads if it i 9764edd was Hans Engel, 11 days ago, message: Add diff-lcs dependency e1ba1e3 was Hans Engel, 11 days ago, message: Add dependency for Open4 0f87b4d was Scott Chacon, 12 days ago, message: merged recent changes 

You can find more formatting options in the documentation here.