This is my preferred git log command: git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C

This is my preferred git log command: git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)' --all" Of all the git log variants that I have come across I find this one the most clean, easy to parse, and nicely formatted. I think I found it on HN somewhere. Maybe someone finds it as useful as I did