I did something similar to this a while back with a one-liner aliased in my Bash includes, called gitsum (short for git summary). alias gitsum='git log --p

I did something similar to this a while back with a one-liner aliased in my Bash includes, called gitsum (short for git summary). alias gitsum='git log --pretty=format:"* %s" --author `git config user.email`' #myself It gives my git commit messages as a Markdown bullet-point list. It only works per-branch unlike the linked gist, but one cool thing about it is that you can tack on additional git flags, such as --since. For example: gitsum --since 1.day gitsum --since 1.week gitsum --since 8.hours I usually pipe this into my clipboard (on Mac) to easily paste it into the time logging or reporting system: gitsum --since 1.day | pbcopy