Display last git commit comment

Question

Often during a commit ($ git -commit -m \"\"), I wish to read my last comment to remember what progress I have made. Is there an easy way to directly access the

Answer 1

Generally:

git log -n

will show you the last n commit messages

More elegantly - if you want a quick overview of your commits

git log --oneline -n

This will Show just the first line of the last n commit messages.

You can save this as a git alias or a shell alias with a shorter command. I've got it in my shell as glog, for example, and I can see my last 10 commit messages with glog -10.