Update: As some people were reporting, the git lg -p command wasn't working. PS: It seems that there's no way to view larger images, so I've linked bigger versions of them on the tip.

if git status grep -q Your branch is ahead of origin/main by 1 commit. If you want to find all commits where commit message contains given word, use git log -grepword If you want to find all commits where word was added. You can also do a regex search by using -G instead of -S. By default, the date that git log displays is the author date. git log -Ssearch string -p grep search string -C5. Or, if you want to see the lines that changed git lg -p Heres the best Ive come up with: To find which commits and which files a string was added or removed in: git log -Ssearch string -oneline -name-status. Git config -global alias.lg 'log -color -graph -pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)%Creset' -abbrev-commit'ДЄnd every time you need to see your log, just type in git lg Copy and paste the line below on your terminal:

I guess that's a bit too long, eh? Let's just make an alias. Just type in: git log -graph -pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)%Creset' -abbrev-commit So, are you tired of this old and bored git log screen?

Git log grep