Documentation / pretty-options.txton commit GIT 1.6.1 (8104ebf)
   1--pretty[='<format>']::
   2
   3        Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
   4        where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',
   5        'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'.
   6        When omitted, the format defaults to 'medium'.
   7+
   8Note: you can specify the default pretty format in the repository
   9configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
  10
  11--abbrev-commit::
  12        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
  13        name, show only handful hexdigits prefix.  Non default number of
  14        digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
  15        diff output, if it is displayed).
  16+
  17This should make "--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable for
  18people using 80-column terminals.
  19
  20--encoding[=<encoding>]::
  21        The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
  22        in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
  23        command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
  24        preferred by the user.  For non plumbing commands this
  25        defaults to UTF-8.