Documentation / pretty-options.txton commit Git 1.7.1 (d599e04)
   1--pretty[='<format>']::
   2--format[='<format>']::
   3
   4        Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
   5        where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',
   6        'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'.
   7        When omitted, the format defaults to 'medium'.
   8+
   9Note: you can specify the default pretty format in the repository
  10configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
  11
  12--abbrev-commit::
  13        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
  14        name, show only a partial prefix.  Non default number of
  15        digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
  16        diff output, if it is displayed).
  17+
  18This should make "--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable for
  19people using 80-column terminals.
  20
  21--oneline::
  22        This is a shorthand for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit"
  23        used together.
  24
  25--encoding[=<encoding>]::
  26        The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
  27        in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
  28        command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
  29        preferred by the user.  For non plumbing commands this
  30        defaults to UTF-8.
  31
  32--no-notes::
  33--show-notes[=<ref>]::
  34        Show the notes (see linkgit:git-notes[1]) that annotate the
  35        commit, when showing the commit log message.  This is the default
  36        for `git log`, `git show` and `git whatchanged` commands when
  37        there is no `--pretty`, `--format` nor `--oneline` option is
  38        given on the command line.
  39+
  40With an optional argument, add this ref to the list of notes.  The ref
  41is taken to be in `refs/notes/` if it is not qualified.
  42
  43--[no-]standard-notes::
  44        Enable or disable populating the notes ref list from the
  45        'core.notesRef' and 'notes.displayRef' variables (or
  46        corresponding environment overrides).  Enabled by default.
  47        See linkgit:git-config[1].