~/ Persistent git log with git loglive

2014-05-24

I recently watched a talk by Tim Berglund on advanced git - http://vimeo.com/49444883 wherein he demos some git plumbing commands with a git log that keeps refreshing.

It looks like this:

This is incredibly useful for visualizing what's happening to your repository as you switch between and modify branches.

The code below has been reproduced from his original gist

#!/bin/bash

while :
do
    clear
    git --no-pager log --graph --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --decorate --all $*
    sleep 1
done 

I had to create a new file with the above contents somewhere in my PATH. I created a file called git-loglive in /usr/local/bin/

If your commit history is longer than your terminal window is tall, you might need to specify that you only want the top 10 commits or so.

$ git loglive -10

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~/ Posted by Jesse Shawl on 2014-05-24