Creating A Better Git Log Output

Use the following snippet to print out a list of the commits in your git repo.

git log --no-merges --pretty="format:- %s"

This uses the following flags:

• --no-merges - No merge commits will be present in the output.
• --pretty - This will format the output, in this case the subject of the commit message will be output (meaning that only the first line will be printed). There are lots and lots of options for this format in the git documentation.

Running this will produce something like this:

- 130: Uninstalling the warmer module.
- 128: Fixing coding standards issue in the theme.
- 128: Added a template override for the book in print mode.
- 128: Updated the breadcrumb generation for books.

Just ready to be copy/pasted into markdown as a list.