Re: git-log to go forward instead of reverse?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jul 10, 2006, 20:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607101304210.5623@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <86mzbhntxu.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>
>                     then git-log --pretty=short ORIG_HEAD..HEAD | cat

> The log is just so I can quickly eyeball the interesting changes.  The "cat"
> is to keep git-log from starting a pager.  (If there's a switch that does
> *that* that I've overlooked, that'd be good too.)

Just do

	PAGER= git log --pretty=short ORIG_HEAD..HEAD

instead.

And if you didn't know about "git shortlog" already, I personally actually find it easier to read

	git log --no-merges ORIG_HEAD.. | git shortlog

which orders things by author instead. It also reverses the log messages as it does so, so each author will have the one-liners sorted oldest to newest the way you wanted to (so you do _not_ want to pass --reverse to that git-shortlog invocation).

		Linus