only interested in changes related to a certain directory or
file.
-Here are some additional details for each format:
+There are several built-in formats, and you can define
+additional formats by setting a pretty.<name>
+config option to either another format name, or a
+'format:' string, as described below (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]). Here are the details of the
+built-in formats:
* 'oneline'
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
- Date: <date>
+ Date: <author date>
<title line>
* 'fuller'
commit <sha1>
- Author: <author>
- AuthorDate: <date & time>
- Commit: <committer>
- CommitDate: <date & time>
+ AuthorDate: <author date>
+ Commit: <committer>
+ CommitDate: <committer date>
<title line>
From <sha1> <date>
From: <author>
- Date: <date & time>
+ Date: <author date>
Subject: [PATCH] <title line>
<full commit message>
* 'raw'
+
The 'raw' format shows the entire commit exactly as
-stored in the commit object. Notably, the SHA1s are
+stored in the commit object. Notably, the SHA-1s are
displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
--no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the
-true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
+true parent commits, without taking grafts or history
simplification into account.
-* 'format:'
+* 'format:<string>'
+
-The 'format:' format allows you to specify which information
+The 'format:<string>' format allows you to specify which information
you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format,
with the notable exception that you get a newline with '%n'
instead of '\n'.
- '%P': parent hashes
- '%p': abbreviated parent hashes
- '%an': author name
+- '%aN': author name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1]
+ or linkgit:git-blame[1])
- '%ae': author email
-- '%ad': author date
+- '%aE': author email (respecting .mailmap, see
+ linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
+- '%ad': author date (format respects --date= option)
- '%aD': author date, RFC2822 style
- '%ar': author date, relative
- '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
+- '%ai': author date, ISO 8601-like format
+- '%aI': author date, strict ISO 8601 format
- '%cn': committer name
+- '%cN': committer name (respecting .mailmap, see
+ linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
- '%ce': committer email
-- '%cd': committer date
+- '%cE': committer email (respecting .mailmap, see
+ linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
+- '%cd': committer date (format respects --date= option)
- '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style
- '%cr': committer date, relative
- '%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp
+- '%ci': committer date, ISO 8601-like format
+- '%cI': committer date, strict ISO 8601 format
+- '%d': ref names, like the --decorate option of linkgit:git-log[1]
+- '%D': ref names without the " (", ")" wrapping.
- '%e': encoding
- '%s': subject
+- '%f': sanitized subject line, suitable for a filename
- '%b': body
+- '%B': raw body (unwrapped subject and body)
+- '%N': commit notes
+- '%GG': raw verification message from GPG for a signed commit
+- '%G?': show "G" for a Good signature, "B" for a Bad signature, "U" for a good,
+ untrusted signature and "N" for no signature
+- '%GS': show the name of the signer for a signed commit
+- '%GK': show the key used to sign a signed commit
+- '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}`
+- '%gd': shortened reflog selector, e.g., `stash@{1}`
+- '%gn': reflog identity name
+- '%gN': reflog identity name (respecting .mailmap, see
+ linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
+- '%ge': reflog identity email
+- '%gE': reflog identity email (respecting .mailmap, see
+ linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
+- '%gs': reflog subject
- '%Cred': switch color to red
- '%Cgreen': switch color to green
- '%Cblue': switch color to blue
- '%Creset': reset color
+- '%C(...)': color specification, as described in color.branch.* config option;
+ adding `auto,` at the beginning will emit color only when colors are
+ enabled for log output (by `color.diff`, `color.ui`, or `--color`, and
+ respecting the `auto` settings of the former if we are going to a
+ terminal). `auto` alone (i.e. `%C(auto)`) will turn on auto coloring
+ on the next placeholders until the color is switched again.
- '%m': left, right or boundary mark
- '%n': newline
-
+- '%%': a raw '%'
+- '%x00': print a byte from a hex code
+- '%w([<w>[,<i1>[,<i2>]]])': switch line wrapping, like the -w option of
+ linkgit:git-shortlog[1].
+- '%<(<N>[,trunc|ltrunc|mtrunc])': make the next placeholder take at
+ least N columns, padding spaces on the right if necessary.
+ Optionally truncate at the beginning (ltrunc), the middle (mtrunc)
+ or the end (trunc) if the output is longer than N columns.
+ Note that truncating only works correctly with N >= 2.
+- '%<|(<N>)': make the next placeholder take at least until Nth
+ columns, padding spaces on the right if necessary
+- '%>(<N>)', '%>|(<N>)': similar to '%<(<N>)', '%<|(<N>)'
+ respectively, but padding spaces on the left
+- '%>>(<N>)', '%>>|(<N>)': similar to '%>(<N>)', '%>|(<N>)'
+ respectively, except that if the next placeholder takes more spaces
+ than given and there are spaces on its left, use those spaces
+- '%><(<N>)', '%><|(<N>)': similar to '% <(<N>)', '%<|(<N>)'
+ respectively, but padding both sides (i.e. the text is centered)
+
+NOTE: Some placeholders may depend on other options given to the
+revision traversal engine. For example, the `%g*` reflog options will
+insert an empty string unless we are traversing reflog entries (e.g., by
+`git log -g`). The `%d` and `%D` placeholders will use the "short"
+decoration format if `--decorate` was not already provided on the command
+line.
+
+If you add a `+` (plus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, a line-feed
+is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
+placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
+
+If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, line-feeds that
+immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the
+placeholder expands to an empty string.
+
+If you add a ` ` (space) after '%' of a placeholder, a space
+is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
+placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
+
+* 'tformat:'
++
+The 'tformat:' format works exactly like 'format:', except that it
+provides "terminator" semantics instead of "separator" semantics. In
+other words, each commit has the message terminator character (usually a
+newline) appended, rather than a separator placed between entries.
+This means that the final entry of a single-line format will be properly
+terminated with a new line, just as the "oneline" format does.
+For example:
++
+---------------------
+$ git log -2 --pretty=format:%h 4da45bef \
+ | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
+4da45be
+7134973 -- NO NEWLINE
+
+$ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef \
+ | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
+4da45be
+7134973
+---------------------
++
+In addition, any unrecognized string that has a `%` in it is interpreted
+as if it has `tformat:` in front of it. For example, these two are
+equivalent:
++
+---------------------
+$ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef
+$ git log -2 --pretty=%h 4da45bef
+---------------------