pretty-formats.txt

--pretty[='<format>']::

 Pretty-prints the details of a commit. `--pretty`
without an explicit `=<format>` defaults to 'medium'.
If the commit is a merge, and if the pretty-format
 is not 'oneline', 'email' or 'raw', an additional line is
 inserted before the 'Author:' line. This line begins with
 "Merge: " and the sha1s of ancestral commits are printed,
 separated by spaces. Note that the listed commits may not
 necessarily be the list of the *direct* parent commits if you
 have limited your view of history: for example, if you are
 only interested in changes related to a certain directory or
 file. Here are some additional details for each format:

 * 'oneline'

 <sha1> <title line>
+
This is designed to be as compact as possible.

 * 'short'

 commit <sha1>
 Author: <author>

 <title line>

 * 'medium'

 commit <sha1>
 Author: <author>
 Date: <date>

 <title line>

 <full commit message>

 * 'full'

 commit <sha1>
 Author: <author>
 Commit: <committer>

 <title line>

 <full commit message>

 * 'fuller'

 commit <sha1>
 Author: <author>
 AuthorDate: <date & time>
 Commit: <committer>
 CommitDate: <date & time>

 <title line>

 <full commit message>


 * 'email'

 From <sha1> <date>
 From: <author>
 Date: <date & time>
 Subject: [PATCH] <title line>

 full commit message>


* 'raw'
+
The 'raw' format shows the entire commit exactly as
stored in the commit object. Notably, the SHA1s are
displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
--no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the
true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
simplification into account.

* 'format:'
+
The 'format:' format allows you to specify which information
you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format,
with the notable exception that you get a newline with '%n'
instead of '\n'.

E.g, 'format:"The author of %h was %an, %ar%nThe title was >>%s<<"'
would show something like this:

The author of fe6e0ee was Junio C Hamano, 23 hours ago
The title was >>t4119: test autocomputing -p<n> for traditional diff input.<<

The placeholders are:

- '%H': commit hash
- '%h': abbreviated commit hash
- '%T': tree hash
- '%t': abbreviated tree hash
- '%P': parent hashes
- '%p': abbreviated parent hashes
- '%an': author name
- '%ae': author email
- '%ad': author date
- '%aD': author date, RFC2822 style
- '%ar': author date, relative
- '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
- '%cn': committer name
- '%ce': committer email
- '%cd': committer date
- '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style
- '%cr': committer date, relative
- '%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp
- '%e': encoding
- '%s': subject
- '%b': body
- '%Cred': switch color to red
- '%Cgreen': switch color to green
- '%Cblue': switch color to blue
- '%Creset': reset color
- '%n': newline


--encoding[=<encoding>]::
The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this
defaults to UTF-8.