.gitconfig

# Personally I feel completely blind without my various logs.  Especially
# `ftlog` for when I just can't figure out where I am in the tree.
#
# Every now and again, when people I'm helping with git that are feeling
# totally lost, I wish they had these commands.  in reality, they totally do,
# `mylog` could probably just be `log --oneline`; but my format reveals details
# to help me figure out where I actually am. In particular, the commit id (%h)
# -- and/or reflog selector (%ar), the committer email (%ae), and the head and
# branch names (%d) where they occur in the tree. I suppose it helps an awful
# lot to know the human relatable timestamp too (%ar).

# this is more or less how I remember the command names and purpose

# tlog is my tree log
# tlogs is the tree logs, but simplified
# ftlog is the full tree log, and ftlogs is simplified
# slog, rather than being simplified is my stat log
# fslog is the full slog

[alias]
    mylog = log --pretty='format:%C(yellow)%gd%C(bold)%h%C(bold blue) %ae%Creset%C(bold magenta)%d%Creset %s %C(bold black)%ar%Creset' 
    tlog = ! git mylog --graph
    tlogs = ! git tlog --simplify-by-decoration
    ftlog = ! git tlog --all
    ftlogs = ! git tlogs --all
    slog = ! git mylog --graph --stat
    fslog = ! git slog --all