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12ft - Use Git Like A Senior Engineer. Git Is A Powerful Tool That Feels Great - by Jacob Bennett - Level Up Coding

The document discusses using the 'git log' command with additional parameters to provide a more useful summary of commits in a Git repository. Specifically, it recommends using '--graph' to visualize commit history as a graph and '--format' to customize the log output, making it easier to understand what has been happening in a project from the commit history at a high level.

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12ft - Use Git Like A Senior Engineer. Git Is A Powerful Tool That Feels Great - by Jacob Bennett - Level Up Coding

The document discusses using the 'git log' command with additional parameters to provide a more useful summary of commits in a Git repository. Specifically, it recommends using '--graph' to visualize commit history as a graph and '--format' to customize the log output, making it easier to understand what has been happening in a project from the commit history at a high level.

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24/04/2023, 21:03 12ft | Use Git like a senior engineer.

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git log

Let’s be real. These logs aren’t impressing anyone. They are boring. And they’re
full of information that you don’t really need right now. You’re trying to get a high-
level understanding of what has been going on in your project.

There’s a better way.

git log with more visibility


Using --graph and --format we can quickly get a summary view of git commits in
our project.

git log --graph --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%a

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