Git Log Format String Cheat Sheet

Also see

• Git log cheatsheet
• Git Log Format String Cheat Sheet - Cheat Sheet Maker

[Author and committer] Committer

Name

Variable	Description
%cn	committer name
%cN	committer name, respecting mailmap

Email

Variable	Description
%ce	committer email
%cE	committer email, respecting mailmap

Date

Variable	Description
%cD	committer date (rfc2882)
%cr	committer date (relative)
%ct	committer date (unix timestamp)
%ci	committer date (iso8601)

[Author and committer] Author

Name

Variable	Description
%an	author
%aN	author, respecting mailmap

Email

Variable	Description
%ae	author email
%aE	author email, respecting mailmap

Date

Variable	Description
%aD	author date (rfc2882)
%ar	author date (relative)
%at	author date (unix timestamp)
%ai	author date (iso8601)

[Log format] Commit

Variable	Description
%s	commit subject
%f	commit subject, filename style
%b	commit body
---	---
%d	ref names
%e	encoding

[Log format] Hash

Commit

Variable	Description
%H	commit hash
%h	(abbrev) commit hash

Tree

Variable	Description
%T	tree hash
%t	(abbrev) tree hash

Parent

Variable	Description
%P	parent hash
%p	(abbrev) parent hash

[Log format] Pretty format

git log --pretty="format:%H"

See the next tables on format variables.