How to git log in reverse order?

Question

I recently learned that I can get hg log to print the history in reverse order with:

hg log -r :

So of course I tried:

git log          


        

Answer 1

You don't need to type --reverse all the time, nor do you need a bash function. You can just create a git alias. Open up your favorite text editor and open up your global .gitconfig file. It's usually found in your home directory.

Navigate to or create a section like this:

[alias]
    lg = log -10 --reverse

That creates a git alias that grabs the ten most recent commits then reverses that list so the most recent of those 10 is at the bottom. Now you can simply run:

git lg