$git log waits for me to write smth

Question

I suppose this is a really stupid question and I'm sorry for this, but I don't know how to fix it and what I'm supposed to do.

I have never used a source control system, so I started reading Git's documentation. But I came this problem: when I execute $ git log it gives me ":" and it waits for me to do something but I don't know what and how to return back and be able to write a new command. It also says "No next tag (press RETURN) but I don't know how to press it :( Please help, because now the only way to continue is to close the bash after every $git log... And sorry once again for the stupid question.

Answer 1

Press q. You have entered a pager output (less or more) but with an empty text.

Answer 2

Note: if you want to avoid the pager option, you can do a:

git --no-pager log

From the git man page:

--no-pager

Do not pipe git output into a pager.