From the course: Git: Branches, Merges, and Remotes
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Format the commit log
From the course: Git: Branches, Merges, and Remotes
Format the commit log
- In this movie, we're going to talk about how you can format the commit log so that you can better use that data. One of most useful things you can do with the git log is to look at the actual changes along with each commit, and we can do that with git log and then -p. P is for patch. It's another way of saying it's the change set. A patch is the same thing as a change set. What is the patch that would change it from one condition to another? So the -p option will show us each and every one of these. our commits in the commit log. The first few of these don't have a lot to view in them, so let's scroll down a bit. Let's hit the space bar or the f key and go forward. add gitignore file, right? and I can see the actual changes. The plus signs indicate what was added to the file. If we go a little further down, you can see that there's minus signs whenever we take something away from the file. So if we're changing something, then we're both removing one thing and putting a new thing in…
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