From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:30:43 GMT Subject: Re: How to trim the fat on my log graphs Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Robert Dailey writes: [Administrivia: because people read from top to bottom / why is it bad to top-post? / please do not top-post.] > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Robert Dailey writes: >> >>> git log log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative >>> --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset)%x09%C(bold >>> green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset) %C(dim >>> white)%an%C(reset) - %C(white)%s%C(reset)' --branches --remotes >>> ... >>> The goal is to weed out the really distant and irrelevant commits. I >>> really just want to see the commits that are closely related to my >>> current branch. Thanks in advance. >> >> For a starter, how about dropping "--branches --remotes" from that >> command line? A merge from elsewhere will show as "Merge branch foo" >> which should be sufficient without the decoration. > > Thanks, removing those two options did help quite a bit already. > However, the history can still get pretty crazy. Is there a way to > hide all tags from the log graph? Really I just want the LABELS to be > hidden. As you had --decorate and a lot of %C(cruft), I was assuming that you do want to see all the bells and whistles when I suggested to omit --branches and --remotes. If you do not want --decorate, I think you can omit that from the command line without changing what the output means.