Tech Notes

History viewing

Full Commit history, reverse, only messages

git log --reverse --pretty=format:"%s"

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Commit history for specific day, reverse, only messages

git log --since="2026-04-28 00:00" --until="2026-04-28 23:59" --reverse --pretty=format:"%s"

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Commit history for specific day, with original date, reverse, only messages

This uses author date.
After rebase commit date is overwritten with rebase date.
Original date remains in author date.

git log --reverse --pretty=format:"%ad %s" --date=short | sed -n 's/^2026-04-28 //p'

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