Recently I’ve been collecting a large collection of git shortcuts, tips and tricks. The following commands have been tested on linux and some of them will required a recent version of git.
I expect that many of you will find them useful as much as I do. So let’s get started with some simple but helpful commands to search and review your git repository history.
Show log for only a specific branch
The following command can be used if you are working on a project with a particular dirty history or a log of branches
git log --first-parent {branch_name}
Show the log as a single line
The following command will show the commit has and the first line of the commit comment.
git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
A more advanced and nicer version of the command above is:
git log --graph --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --date=relative
Search for a string in all commits across the entire git history
This can be really useful when looking for a particular piece of code to see when it was added/removed:
git log -S{text_to_search}
Shows branches that are all merged in to your current branch
git branch --merged
And in the same way we can see all the branches that haven’t yet been merged.
git branch --no-merged
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