git log formatting

Question

I need to have format like:

git log --decorate --graph --oneline --date-order

but I need it also:

1. to contain date (short)

Answer 1

In addition in your git config you can add two lines like this:

[format]
  pretty = %Cblue%h%Creset %Cgreen[%ar]%Creset (%an) %s 

This just means you can type git log and it will always be formatted.