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This is a pretty simple question: as a Git newbie I was wondering if there's a way for me to output my git log to a file, preferably in some kind of serialized format like XML, JSON, or YAML. Any suggestions?
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By default, git log includes merge commits in its output. But, if your team has an always-merge policy (that is, you merge upstream changes into topic branches instead of rebasing the topic branch onto the upstream branch), you'll have a lot of extraneous merge commits in your project history.
Under --pretty=oneline , the commit message is prefixed with this information on the same line. This option cannot be combined with --reverse . See also git-reflog[1]. Under --pretty=reference , this information will not be shown at all.
Git log is a utility tool to review and read a history of everything that happens to a repository. Multiple options can be used with a git log to make history more specific. Generally, the git log is a record of commits.
With git log --follow , Git runs an after-diff step (called from diff_tree_sha1 ; see footnotes) that trims everything down to one file. The diff is done with R=C and L=P.
to output to a file:
git log > filename.log To specify a format, like you want everything on one line
git log --pretty=oneline >filename.log or you want it a format to be emailed via a program like sendmail
git log --pretty=email |email-sending-script.sh to generate JSON, YAML or XML it looks like you need to do something like:
git log --pretty=format:"%h%x09%an%x09%ad%x09%s" This gist (not mine) perfectly formats output in JSON: https://gist.github.com/1306223
See also:
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