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Remove Git log history [duplicate]
Issue:
Some code containing a Client ID and Client Secret was accidentally pushed to the integration branch. Although those changes have now been reverted, the issue is that multiple branches had ...
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How to filter git log by relation of the parent commit?
I want to filter the commits shown by git log --graph, so that the commits included are either reachable only by the first parent (--first-parent) [type A] or which are not reachable, whose first ...
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git notes in oneline git log format [duplicate]
When running git log to list commits with notes, it seems like the notes end with an extra newline.
Example output with two commits where only the second one has a note:
$ git log --pretty="%ad %...
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How to color a relative date placeholder in git reflog? [closed]
I want to color just the date part of the identifier git reflog --date, prints so I need to run with the --pretty option. However, there is no placeholder for the date a command is issued, even though ...
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Why is git HEAD pointing to two branches?
The git installed on my machine always creates master when I initialize any folder as git:
PS C: \job-artifacts-and-outputs› git branch --show-current
master
So my local branch name is always master ...
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How should I use `git log --remotes` for a specific branch?
I have a Git repository cloned from a remote repository. In my local repository, I see:
$ git branch --remotes
origin/HEAD -> origin/master
origin/master
But when I then do:
$ git log --...
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Is there a way to compare commits for two unrelated histories? [closed]
I can run this to check logs:
git log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --cherry-mark --boundary --left-right 450efff0b..aa562a8b8 3f2556baf..b5e526fe6
> b5e526fe6 (HEAD -> ...
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`git log` shows commits not upstream any branch or tag
I often watch git log --all --oneline --graph --decorate --colors to keep an eye on my rebases. Today, something rather unsettling is showing up:
* b782b84 (HEAD -> dev, origin/dev) III
* 22fe431 ...
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How to get git log to show tags, greppably?
I've been having a surprisingly hard time getting git log to show tags. I thought I'd found the answer here, but I've just discovered that when I do
git log --tags --no-walk | grep a-tag-pattern-I'm-...
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git log graph smart filter on branches
Since I have multiple colleagues in my team pushing out considerable amount of branches, whenever I want to disentangle my own branches I'd like to get a clear overview of only those. In summary I ...
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How to get git log --follow to show patches for binary files like git diff
I need to follow the history of a binary file, like what I would get from git log --follow --patch textfile, but for a binary file.
For git diff it's possible to configure a specific diff tool via ....
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Get the history of a line which could be moved across different files with git?
I find a line Footer is saved at the end of the file, with fixed length in fileA, and I want to know at which commit this line was added. Then I use
git log -L 51,51:.../FileFormat.h
And it turns out ...
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Can I get git diff --stat to count character rather than lines added/removed?
I'm writing a patch for my code which mainly replaces contents within lines. I want the git diff --stat (and later git log --stat) to show me the numbers of characters, rather than lines, added or ...
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"git log --oneline" with a blank line as separator
How can I show a blank line between each line on the output of git log --oneline?
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Git log - unable to exclude commits reachable from a commit using ^ notation
I trying to build a git log command to show commits reachable from commit1 but not reachable from a set of other commits (commit2 ...). However I seem to be doing something wrong with a command to ...
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How to grep in commits from specific author(s) with git?
How to grep in commits of specific author(s) with git (i.e., w/o piping to grep)?
I could use git log and pipe into grep, but maybe there's a better (faster?) way?
git log --author="John Doe <...
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Enrich git log with a custom dynamic content
Is there a way in Git to have a nice commit graph like this gives,
git log --graph --oneline --all --decorate
But with additional information, which would be retrieved from a custom executable?
...
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Using "x AND y" instead of "x OR y" when using --grep twice in git-log
I'm trying to find commits whose commit message includes both key words "x" and "y". I've tried using git log --grep="x" --grep="y", and while this does include ...
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Align information in a column next to graph?
git log --graph --oneline --all
is quite useful. How can I align the formatted logs to start in the same column though?
For example
git log --graph --oneline --all --format='%C(auto)%<|(15)%h %d %...
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How to search only first line of git log messages
At day job there are some automated commits made to our git repos with a specific subject:
"Job: sync <unique-id> <timestamp>"
A script exists that finds the latest commit of ...
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Git log using since and until shows no commits [duplicate]
We have a repository with 50k+ commits and recently when I want to filter the commits from Jan 24 to Feb 24, it doesn't show any commits but there were 1000's of commits on that month. Any idea what ...
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1
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git log with all commits but partial diffs
I would like a way to log certain commits and also submit path arguments so that the diff on those paths, if any, is shown for each commit as if those path arguments were supplied like git diff -- <...
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Filter git log to find deleted file by some user
Long time ago, there was a spike that I did to try something, and then I removed it.
I don't remember when I removed it (more than a year or maybe two years ago), but it was in our codebase for two or ...
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"git log" fails in GitLab Pipeline when using variable
I've encountered a problem while using 'git log' in one stage of my GitLab pipeline. For some reason, when I try to filter the logs using the commit SHA, it doesn't work, but ONLY when I introduce the ...
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Why must `git log --pretty` be followed by an equal mark?
Why does:
$ git log --pretty "format:%h %s"
fatal: invalid object name 'format'.
fail but both:
git log --pretty="format:%h %s"
git log --author bob
succeed? Why is the first ...
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git log --since will miss some commits
I have a branch that merged some merge requests from other repositories, which resulted in non-linear committed time on my branch. When I use git log --since and traverse from HEAD to the parent ...
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Why doesn't git log show reachable ancestors? [closed]
With git log --graph --all --oneline I have:
* G (HEAD -> main, origin/main)
...
* F
* E
* D
* C
* B
| * Z
|/
* A
But if the --all flag is omitted, then the graph is:
* G (HEAD -> main, ...
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How to show/log all commits (and only those) from stdin?
I have a list of commits and I want git-log(1) or git-show(1) to show all of them. But
only them. Not also commits that are reachable from them.
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How should I show only commits that declare a specific footer?
Reading through this question about extracting footers from commits, the answer left something to be desired for my specific use case. Using the suggested command (git log --format="%h %s %(...
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Finding all changes to a block of text with git
I have a text file that I'd like to track changes with. It's a file that stores values (as well as strings and arrays) and has the following format for its entries:
NAME: some_name
UNIT: some_unit
...
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How to list only all merges to a branch after a specific commit/datetime?
I have multiple branches (dev, release_1, release_2, etc.). A lot of merges occur. I want to see all the merges to a branch after a specific commit / datetime.
For example, in dev branch there is a ...
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How to get one-line commit info when using `git log -L`
git log -L:function_name:file_name can be used to get the log of all commits that touched a specific function. But it always shows the content/diff of the commit as if -p option was applied.
I have ...
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How to search specified string which introduced by merge commit?
Is there a way to search for a specific string introduced from a merge commit?
git log -S won't work and git log -m -p | less is too slow.
To reproduce the the problem, given the setup:
git init -b a
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Git Log between tags show commits from another tag
I am executing a command to get a commits between two tags:
git log --merges '7.0.8'...'7.0.9' --oneline
Apart from commits that are between these two tags, I also receive some commit that was made ...
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Git log -p -- <file> shows a commit with no patch
I asked git to show me all the commits that modified a certain file, and it produced what I asked, except some commits show no modification to said file (and so instead only the commit hash/author/...
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"git log --all" - show multiple stashes
While using git, I noticed that my git GUI client (Git Extensions) shows all stashes I have if "show unrelated histories" is enabled - see below screenshot.
However, when looking at "...
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No commit history with git log --follow after renaming folder with different case
I've had troubles after renaming a folder Draft to draft on macOS.
The commands are below:
cd path/to/Draft
cd ..
git checkout main
git config core.ignorecase false
# git mv Draft draft # Failed ...
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Git auto created a FILE with git logs inside it
While pushing my commits to the remote branch and after staging files with git add ., Git unexpectedly created a new file named h containing commit logs. I'm unsure why this happened since I hadn't ...
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Git log --since not working as expected for 1 day timeframe
git log --since=1.day command displaying commits from June 27th despite today being July 3rd.
I'm encountering an issue with the git log --since=1.day command in Git. According to the Git ...
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Search git history by file content
I have a tarball from a point in time from a multi-year project. The tarball was supposedly from a particular release, and the project tags the commit corresponding to each release. However, the ...
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Compare git branches with Cherry picked PR merged
I tried to compare 2 branches with branch strategy: branches strategy
I have a development branch named S. Some works are done in temporary branches (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2) then merged into ...
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Inconsistent git log results when filtering by directory
I’m encountering an odd behavior with git log when filtering by a specific directory. Here’s the command I’m using:
18:05:04 ~/Documents/01_repo/b2b-crm (uat)
└─▶ $ git log --name-status --oneline --...
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Why does the number of commits shown in a git log not match with the number of commits in a git rebase -i HEAD~n?
I want to perform an interactive rebase in order to squash some commits.
The way I do this is:
use git log to search for the commits I want to squash
count the number of commits from HEAD
use git ...
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Unable to register git `log` alias using CMD
I am trying to alias a log command using Windows CMD (using " because of Windows, see this answer):
git log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h %C(red)%ad %C(brightcyan)%d %C(white)%s" --date=...
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Show Git subtree commit history when --squash option was used
Is there any way to show only subtree history, like with git log but filtering only specific subtree's related commits?
When I add a subtree with --squash option only a merge commit is shown, but the ...
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How can I get `git log` to append ellipsis after the commit subject line if the message body is non-empty?
E.g. suppose this is what my git history looks like:
$ git log --oneline
f9b86d3 (HEAD -> main) blah the baz
966a640 foobar the frob
ac27e4d Revert "do something special"
338ff0f do ...
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Git log of a specific branch already merged
I'm trying to update a documentation script in Python, as my coworkers and I have recently started working with GIT.
The point I'm at and stuck with now is trying to extract a list of the names of ...
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How to clone only a git subdirectory and get the date/time of the last commit into that subdirectory
As a (late) followup on How do I clone a subdirectory only of a Git repository?, I additionally need the date and time of the latest commit in that subdirectory. However, the --depth=1 command only ...
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Show all files affected by a commit with git log when given only one file
I would like to git log file and have it show the full commit details, including all files affected by that commit, like git log --stat=999,999 produces.
For example, git log --stat=999,999 path/to/...
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'git log -<number> --pretty="format:%H"' output does NOT append newline when piped into 'cat -e'
I'm creating a shell script that displays the commit IDs of the 5 last git commits of my git repository.
Name of the script file: 'git_commit.sh'
By "commit ID", I mean the full 40-character ...
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