How to get a nth git log in a branch

Question

git log -1 shows last commit and git log -2 shows last two commit ; How can get log for a single commit in history.

    commit 1
    commit 2
    commit 3
    commit 4

How to get just one commit in history so that I can see just commit 3, how to get lets say just

     commit 3

if I know the hash then I can use git show to retrieve it how can we get last nth commit without knowing the hash.

Answer 1

You can specify a revision in the past using the ~ suffix:

git show HEAD~4
git log -1 HEAD~4

will show the 4th-last commit starting from HEAD.

Another way of specifying the same revision is HEAD^^^^

Answer 2

I know this is an old question, but since I came here from Google, and my question ("How to get a nth git log in a branch", but the way I understand it) was not answered here, here's how to find the nth commit if you don't count backwards:

git log -n 1 --skip $(expr $(git log --oneline | wc -l) - 1) # show the 1st commit
git log -n 1 --skip $(expr $(git log --oneline | wc -l) - 100) # show the 100th commit

I think you get the point.