1 --pretty[='<format>']::
3 Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
4 where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',
5 'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'.
6 When omitted, the format defaults to 'medium'.
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8 Note: you can specify the default pretty format in the repository
9 configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
11 --abbrev-commit::
12 Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
13 name, show only handful hexdigits prefix. Non default number of
14 digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
15 diff output, if it is displayed).
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17 This should make "--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable for
18 people using 80-column terminals.
20 --encoding[=<encoding>]::
21 The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
22 in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
23 command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
24 preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this
25 defaults to UTF-8.