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Cleaner logs - Git Tutorial

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Cleaner logs

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(videogame chiming) (bell dinging) (videogame chiming) - [Instructor] Git logs are a great way to take a peek at your history, but sometimes the history is too long, and you don't want to go through all of it. How can you get a more concise commit history within a date range containing a specific keyword? I'll give you a couple of seconds to think about how you would do something like this. (vidiogame whirling) (8-bit music) (vidiogame whirling) Most of us take the git log command for granted. It gives us a list of all of the commits along with the messages, the dates and these longer hashtags that we can use to refer to them. Let me go ahead and hit the Q key to get back. There's a lot of power in the git log statement that you can use by accessing different flags. So the first, and my favorite, is the oneline flag. So if I say git log oneline here, and I'm always mistyping this by forgetting that E, just saying…

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