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'git lg' instead of the default 'git log'

55 points by fks 13y ago

Daegalus 13y ago
http://alias.sh http://alias.sh has had these for a long time. both git lg and git gl
hybrid11 13y ago
Saw this yesterday on Reddit, and been using it since, great improvement if you use command line git!
ayi 13y ago
The title is so link-bait.
mamcx 13y ago
Something like this for mercurial?
- deleted 13y ago
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- dpassen1 13y ago
  This is the closest I could get to this when I was using Mercurial daily. Using the color extension: [color] custom.rev = red custom.bm = yellow custom.date = green custom.author = blue [alias] lg = log -G --template "{label('custom.rev',node|short)} - {if(bookmarks,'(')}{label('custom.bm',bookmarks)}{if(bookmarks,') ')}{desc|firstline} ({label('custom.date',date|age)}) <{label('custom.author',author|person)}>" -b .
- isxek 13y ago
  There's also Steve Losh's CLI templates: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/mercurial-cli-templates/overview https://bitbucket.org/sjl/mercurial-cli-templates/overview
jtsnow 13y ago
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130494, from 2012.
tzakrajs 13y ago
"Whether you love terminal customization or feel more Rand Paul with your ‘.bash_profile’, this tip will change your life." wat?
herge 13y ago
It ain't pretty, but gitk will pop up a tkinter view on your current repo, with a graph and the ability to cherry-pick commits with the mouse.
bilalq 13y ago
I find git aliases to be essential. Things just become too unwieldy without them. This is what my .gitconfig looks like right now: https://github.com/bilalq/dotfiles/blob/master/git/gitconfig https://github.com/bilalq/dotfiles/blob/master/git/gitconfig
dvdt 13y ago
I can't remember the last time I ran 'git log.' Rather, I use tig to get a quick glance at commit history and staged / unstaged changes. Can someone explain the relative upsides and downsides to using tig vs git lg?
- alxndr 13y ago
  First thing that comes to mind is that git lg is "included" with git.
sergiotapia 13y ago
Terminal to modify repository data, SourceTree (or whatever GUI you want) to get your bearings. ;) I hardly ever use git log anymore since SourceTree lets me know very easily who commited when, when and from what branch. What's not to love?
cgore 13y ago
Emacs Magit Mode: [F2] g l l http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit
Estragon 13y ago
You get this for free if you use magit
chimeracoder 13y ago
This is a rather linkbait-y title. "git log is so 2005... git log is where it's at!" I actually thought that this was originally going to be an overview of tig[0] which has completely replaced git log for me. [0] https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/ https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/
- mercurial 13y ago
  Tig is brilliant. Everything I ever needed from git log, easily accessible.
coherentpony 13y ago
> Beautiful, isn’t it? With that transparent terminal? No. There's a massive distraction behind it.
taeric 13y ago
The visualization of branches becomes nigh pointless when you have a lot of disjoint developers in a codebase. Otherwise, I used to have this same setup.
- stormbrew 13y ago
  Yeah, I've honestly largely given up on visual representations of branch history on real world repositories. You can make a lot more work for yourself trying to keep them sane, but the reality is you're just shoving a workload better suited to a computer into your own brain where it's frustrating and slow. Better to learn how to do meaningful queries against the tree (is branch X in branch Y, what's the merge base of X, Y, Z, etc.) and let the computer understand it for you. And usually what I want to see when I do git log these days is either --first-only on master or master.. on a topic branch.
BadassFractal 13y ago
Git lol and git lola have been used for years, this is kind of a rehash of that.
simias 13y ago
The --graph option is nice and cool looking but it gets incredibly slow with big repositories like the linux kernel, so I still use good old "git log" for that reason.
dwb 13y ago
I've tried these prettified `git log`s, but I always go back to the default: I prefer having the whitespace and everything being on a consistent column, instead of dancing all over the shop. But that's just me.

55 points by fks 13y ago

Daegalus 13y ago

http://alias.sh http://alias.sh has had these for a long time. both git lg and git gl

hybrid11 13y ago

Saw this yesterday on Reddit, and been using it since, great improvement if you use command line git!

ayi 13y ago

The title is so link-bait.

mamcx 13y ago

Something like this for mercurial?

deleted 13y ago
[deleted]
dpassen1 13y ago
This is the closest I could get to this when I was using Mercurial daily. Using the color extension: [color] custom.rev = red custom.bm = yellow custom.date = green custom.author = blue [alias] lg = log -G --template "{label('custom.rev',node|short)} - {if(bookmarks,'(')}{label('custom.bm',bookmarks)}{if(bookmarks,') ')}{desc|firstline} ({label('custom.date',date|age)}) <{label('custom.author',author|person)}>" -b .
isxek 13y ago
There's also Steve Losh's CLI templates: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/mercurial-cli-templates/overview https://bitbucket.org/sjl/mercurial-cli-templates/overview

jtsnow 13y ago

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130494, from 2012.

tzakrajs 13y ago

"Whether you love terminal customization or feel more Rand Paul with your ‘.bash_profile’, this tip will change your life." wat?

herge 13y ago

It ain't pretty, but gitk will pop up a tkinter view on your current repo, with a graph and the ability to cherry-pick commits with the mouse.

bilalq 13y ago

I find git aliases to be essential. Things just become too unwieldy without them. This is what my .gitconfig looks like right now: https://github.com/bilalq/dotfiles/blob/master/git/gitconfig https://github.com/bilalq/dotfiles/blob/master/git/gitconfig

dvdt 13y ago

I can't remember the last time I ran 'git log.' Rather, I use tig to get a quick glance at commit history and staged / unstaged changes. Can someone explain the relative upsides and downsides to using tig vs git lg?

alxndr 13y ago
First thing that comes to mind is that git lg is "included" with git.

sergiotapia 13y ago

Terminal to modify repository data, SourceTree (or whatever GUI you want) to get your bearings. ;) I hardly ever use git log anymore since SourceTree lets me know very easily who commited when, when and from what branch. What's not to love?

cgore 13y ago

Emacs Magit Mode: [F2] g l l http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit

Estragon 13y ago

You get this for free if you use magit

chimeracoder 13y ago

This is a rather linkbait-y title. "git log is so 2005... git log is where it's at!" I actually thought that this was originally going to be an overview of tig[0] which has completely replaced git log for me. [0] https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/ https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/

mercurial 13y ago
Tig is brilliant. Everything I ever needed from git log, easily accessible.

coherentpony 13y ago

> Beautiful, isn’t it? With that transparent terminal? No. There's a massive distraction behind it.

taeric 13y ago

The visualization of branches becomes nigh pointless when you have a lot of disjoint developers in a codebase. Otherwise, I used to have this same setup.

stormbrew 13y ago
Yeah, I've honestly largely given up on visual representations of branch history on real world repositories. You can make a lot more work for yourself trying to keep them sane, but the reality is you're just shoving a workload better suited to a computer into your own brain where it's frustrating and slow. Better to learn how to do meaningful queries against the tree (is branch X in branch Y, what's the merge base of X, Y, Z, etc.) and let the computer understand it for you. And usually what I want to see when I do git log these days is either --first-only on master or master.. on a topic branch.

BadassFractal 13y ago

Git lol and git lola have been used for years, this is kind of a rehash of that.

simias 13y ago

The --graph option is nice and cool looking but it gets incredibly slow with big repositories like the linux kernel, so I still use good old "git log" for that reason.

dwb 13y ago

I've tried these prettified `git log`s, but I always go back to the default: I prefer having the whitespace and everything being on a consistent column, instead of dancing all over the shop. But that's just me.