How to make git log decorate by default
git config log.decorate auto
For a global setting, add the --global
parameter.
So it would be:
git config --global log.decorate auto
The aliases are made with git config alias.lg "log --decorate"
Update April 2017, 3 years later:
With Git 2.13 (Q2 2017), no need for configuration: --decorate
is the default!
See commit 940a911 (24 Mar 2017) by Alex Henrie (alexhenrie
).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster
-- in commit d9758cf, 11 Apr 2017)
The default behaviour of "
git log
" in an interactive session has been changed to enable "--decorate
".
That means you would need to override that option on command line, to get back to the old behavior (for just one log
execution):
git -c log.decorate=false log
Original answer (mid 2014)
Note: since git 2.1.0-rc0 (July 2014), Linus Torvalds himself introduced a decorate=auto
option.
That is more precise than just decorate=true
, especially for scripting purpose, as explained below.
See commit 1571586 by Linus Torvalds (torvalds):
This works kind of like "
--color=auto
" - add decorations for interactive use, but do not change defaults when scripting or when piping the output to anything but a terminal.You can use either
[log]
decorate=auto
in the git config files, or the "
--decorate=auto
" command line option to choose this behavior.