How do i display a custom view of the git commit log?

sorangutan

If the standard git log options are not enough you can customise the output by using a combination of these format options with the git log --pretty=format command.

%H - Commit hash

%h - Abbreviated commit hash

%T - Tree hash

%t - Abbreviated tree hash

%P - Parent hashes

%p - Abbreviated parent hashes

%an - Author name

%ae - Author email

%ad - Author date (format respects the --date=option)

%ar - Author date, relative

%cn - Committer name

%ce - Committer email

%cd - Committer date

%cr - Committer date, relative

%s - Subject

$ git log --pretty=format:"%an made a commit: %h - %ar - %s"

Output:

Sector made a commit: fe33353 - 22 hours ago - Made a small change
Sector made a commit: 2e3853f - 11 months ago - Up
Sector made a commit: 66d5145 - 11 months ago - Initial Commit