How to Filter the Git Logs

Practical examples of how you can filter the Git logs

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Get all commits

We can get the git commit logs with the git log command.

git log

Get the latest n commits

We can get the latest n commits by running git log -n. Let’s say that we want to get the latest 2 commits.

git log -2

Get all the commits since a date

We can filter the commits based on time. Let’s say that we want all the commits from 2022–01–17.

git log --since 2022-01-17

Get all the commits until a date

Similarly, we can get all the commits until a specific date as follows:

git log --until 2022-01-16

Get all the commits by an author

We can get all the commits done by a specific author. For example:

git log --author=pipinho13

Get all the commits between two SHAs

We can get the logs between two SHAs as follows:

git log <XXX>...<YYY>