The Git Show Commit Logs action allows you to display the commit history for a local repository.
From the Git Repository tab select the location of the local repository that you want to view the commit history of.
There are a number of options available to limit the amount of commits that are displayed on the Commit Limiting tab.
Max number of commits to return - Specify maximum number of commits to display.
Skip commits before starting output - Specify the number of commits to skip before starting to display commits.
After - Only display commits that occurred after the specified date.
Before - Only display commits that occurred before the specified date.
Author - Only display commits from the specified author.
Committer - Only display commits from the specified committer.
Use extra arguments - This option allows you to specify extra arguments to use for commit limiting.
Note: Any syntax errors in the Use Extra Arguments option will result in the action failing.
There are a number of general options available from the Commit Log Options tab.
Output as Summary - Output a summary of header information.
Treat all files as text - self explanatory.
Ignore space at end of lines - Ignore changes in white space at end of lines.
Ignore space change - Ignore changes in the amount of white space. Considers all sequences of one or more white space to be equivalent.
Ignore all space - Ignore all space when comparing lines.
Show names of changed files - Only the names of changed files will be displayed.
Show names and status of changed files - Only show the names and the status of changed files.
Turn off rename detection - Turn off rename detection.
Show full pre and post image blob - Rather than displaying the first few characters, show the entire blob objects names.
Abbreviate object name length - Specify how many object name digits should be displayed.
Find changes that introduce or remove string - List changes that introduce or remove an instance of the string value provided.
Pretty Formatting - This option provides you with a number of modes for formatting the output of this action:
Oneline - Commit-Id and title line all on one line.
Short - Commit-Id, author and commit message title.
Medium - Commit-Id, author, date, title line and commit message. This is the format that is used by default when Pretty Formatting is not enabled.
Full - Commit-Id, author, committer, title line and commit message.
Fuller - Commit-Id, author, author date, committer, committer date, title line and commit message.
Email - Output the same information as the medium option except in the format of an email.
Raw - Displays the information exactly as it is stored in the commit object.
Format - Selecting this mode presents a text field that enables you to specify a custom format. To obtain a list of placeholders and see examples see .
Use extra arguments - This option allows you to specify extra arguments to use for commit log options.
Note: Any syntax errors in the Use Extra Arguments option will result in the action failing.
For more information on viewing the commit logs in git, see: