I read Git commit history regularly, like this aliased command: git log --color --graph --oneline --decorate Or this one for a Markdown list: git log --since="

I read Git commit history regularly, like this aliased command: git log --color --graph --oneline --decorate Or this one for a Markdown list: git log --since="last version" --pretty=format:'- %s' It helps me to: - See what feature areas have been recently worked on - Check if commits have been pushed to remotes - Gather all commit messages since last version, and copy & paste (and edit) into changelog Occasionally, I need to go back through the history and find a specific change - I typically just grep the commit messages for a word or phrase. I also read commit messages of forked repos, to keep informed of what's happening upstream.