first-contributions/additional-material/git_workflow_scenarios/check-commit-log.md

Check commit log

In order to check commit log for a branch, or, a file, following command can be used:

git log [options] [path]

The output of this command is given in reverse chronological order by default.

Command variations and options

• In order to log the commits reachable from a particular commit ids: (In this case, foo and bar)
  git log foo bar
• It is also possible to remove the commits reachable from a given commit id by adding a ^ in front of commit id: (In this case, baz)
  git log foo bar ^baz
• Commit log for a particular file
  git log --all <filename>
• Limit number of commits in log (In this case, 5)
  git log -n 5

Refer

• Official documentation