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Flags to Limit Git Commit History Output

You can also limit the output of commit history based on the time when they were made. For example, the flag --since=1day will display commits made 1 days ago. The full list of flags for limiting the output of commits is below:

Flag	Description
`-(n)`	Shows the latest commits, given the specified number.
`--since, --after`*	Displays commits made after the specified date.
`--until, --before`*	Displays commits made before the specified date.
`--author`*	Displays commits for files with the specified author.
`--committer`*	Displays commits made by the specified committer, i.e. the user making the changes. The file author and the committer may be different users.
`grep`	Searches for and displays commits whose message or note contains the specified string.

Some restrictive flags have mandatory requirements to add the sign = after their name and the parameter by which we restrict the output of the commit history. These flags are marked in the table *.

Example . Displaying the latest commits

Let's print the last two commits to the console:

terminalgit log -2

After executing the command we will see:

terminalcommit 33498ca885348fba6060ad4c459963d9e756c8b6 (HEAD -> master)
Author: root <root@node.com>
Date: Tue Sep 12 10:52:30 2023 +0100

  Story1

commit bb6945ff7c73c88981a0b2523c32e30f472fd918
Author: root <root@node.com>
Date: Tue Sep 12 10:47:27 2023 +0100

  text

Example . List commits made after a given date

Let's print to the console the commits made after 11 September 2023:

terminalgit log --since="2023-09-11"

After executing the command we will see:

terminalcommit 33498ca885348fba6060ad4c459963d9e756c8b6 (HEAD -> master)
Author: root <root@node.com>
Date: Tue Sep 12 10:52:30 2023 +0100

  Story1

commit bb6945ff7c73c88981a0b2523c32e30f472fd918
Author: root <root@node.com>
Date: Tue Sep 12 10:47:27 2023 +0100

  text

Example . List commits made before a specified date

Now let's print to the console the commits made before 11 September 2023:

terminalgit log --until="2023-09-11"

After executing the command we will see:

terminalcommit a99c51a34d6a89be9c56127e18a1e574d6188d61
Author: root <root@node.com>
Date: Fri Jun 16 15:20:43 2023 +0100

initial commit

Example . List commits made by the specified author of the files

Let's print to the console all commits for files created by user 'user':

terminalgit log --author="user"

After executing the command we will see:

terminalcommit 9c51a34d188d61a6a89be9c56127e18a1e574d69
Author: user <user@node.com>
Date: Fri Jun 10 10:10:23 2022 +0100

initial commit

Example . Print commits made by the specified committer

Now let's print to the console all commits made by user 'root':

terminalgit log --committer="root"

After executing the command we will see:

terminalcommit 33498ca885348fba6060ad4c459963d9e756c8b6 (HEAD -> master)
Author: root <root@node.com>
Date: Tue Sep 12 10:52:30 2023 +0100

  Story1

commit bb6945ff7c73c88981a0b2523c32e30f472fd918
Author: root <root@node.com>
Date: Tue Sep 12 10:47:27 2023 +0100

  text

commit a99c51a34d6a89be9c56127e18a1e574d6188d61
Author: root <root@node.com>
Date: Fri Jun 16 15:20:43 2023 +0100

  initial commit

Example . Commit output, specified note

Let's print to the console all commits that contain the string 'text':

terminalgit log --grep "text"

After executing the command we will see:

terminalcommit bb6945ff7c73c88981a0b2523c32e30f472fd918
Author: root <root@node.com>
Date: Tue Sep 12 10:47:27 2023 +0100

  text