[SOLVED] git log on Debian isn't showing local / remote matching branches names near the commit ids. On Windows, git-bash was displaying them

Issue

I used git-bash on Windows 7, and I found very convenient when doing a

git log

that local or remote branch(es) name(s) were mentionned near the sha-1 of each commit where it was accurate.

It was really useful at the time I had to do a rebase -i, to select the good commit id to summarize my local branch before pushing it.

Going to Debian 9 now, I do not need to install git-bash. However, a git log no more mention me the accorded branches of my commit ids. Is this a special customisation of my git log command that git-bash does and that I can reproduce ?

Thanks

Solution

You might want to use the --decorate option. From man git-log:

       --no-decorate, --decorate[=short|full|auto|no]
           Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown. If short is specified, the ref name prefixes refs/heads/, refs/tags/ and refs/remotes/
           will not be printed. If full is specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. If auto is specified, then if the output is
           going to a terminal, the ref names are shown as if short were given, otherwise no ref names are shown. The default option is short.

I also must mention that on my version of Git (2.20.1), the branches are automatically displayed with git log. Which version of Git do you use?

Answered By - padawin