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

You can use

git show -s --format=%s

Here --format enables various printing options, see documentation here. Specifically, %smeans 'subject'. In addition, -s stands for --no-patch, which suppresses the diff content.

I often use

git show -s --format='%h %s'

where %h denotes a short hash of the commit

Another way is

git show-branch --no-name HEAD

It seems to run faster than the other way.

I actually wrote a small tool to see the status of all my repos. You can find it on github.