chunloy / git-log-interactive

git-log-interactive

Intro

This is git log for cool kids: Quick Demo

Usage

1. Run in your terminal gli to invoke the function.
2. To do a fuzzy search, just start typing.
3. To view all changes in fullscreen, highlight a commit and press ENTER, press q to exit fullscreen.
4. To copy a commit hash to your clipboard, press CTRL-C.
5. To exit the function, press ESC.

Setup

Note: This function uses fzf and diff-so-fancy, make sure they're both installed.

1. Navigate to your root directory with cd ~.
2. Open your .zshrc file with nano .zshrc.
3. Copy and paste the shell function at the bottom of the file:

 function gli() {
   local git_log_line_to_hash="echo {} | grep -o '[a-f0-9]\{7\}' | head -1"
   local view_git_log_line="${git_log_line_to_hash} | xargs -I % sh -c 'git show --color=always % | diff-so-fancy'"

   git log \
       --color=always \
       --format="%C(cyan)%h %C(blue)%ar%C(auto)%d %C(yellow)%s%+b %C(black)%ae" "$@" | \
   fzf -i -e +s \
       --reverse \
       --tiebreak=index \
       --no-multi \
       --ansi \
       --preview="${view_git_log_line}" \
       --header "ENTER: View in pager, CTRL+C: Copy hash" \
       --bind "enter:execute:${view_git_log_line} | less -R" \
       --bind "ctrl-c:execute:${git_log_line_to_hash} | pbcopy"
 }

4. To save the file, press CTRL-X, then Y, then ENTER.
5. Apply the changes with source ~/.zshrc.

Note: If you're using bash, follow the same steps but replace .zshrc with .bashrc.