How to make Git log show all of today's commits?

Question

I want to be able to see all of the commits I made today using git log. I came up with git log --after="yesterday"
However, that seems a little awkward to me, is there a simpler command to achieve the same effect?

abyx · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-13T06:53:53.750

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Edit: Since this is the accepted answer I can't delete it, so I'm posting here @Simon's answer:

git log --since="6am"

And of course you can adjust the time to whatever is "morning" enough for you :)

edited Aug 13 '13 at 06:53

answered Mar 03 '11 at 09:20

abyx

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This does not seem to work on git 1.5.6.5, FWIW. I know, old version and all, but I figure this might help someone. `git log --after="yesterday"` seems to come closest to correct, but it ends up including things that occurred yesterday along with things that occurred *after* yesterday. – Aug 11 '11 at 16:20
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For me: `git log --since="yesterday"` works well. Looks nice with `--pretty="oneline"` too... (git version 1.7.10) – Nick Jan 22 '13 at 17:05
--since and --after are synonyms, so the answer is suggesting the same thing that is in the question. This will give give the last 24 hours of commits (hence @agentbanks217 problem with seeing commits from yesterday). I have give a different answer below. – cogg Jun 22 '13 at 18:38
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Also, times like `"06:00"` work, for those that don't like AM/PM – Hubro May 15 '17 at 08:03
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I had imagined this would work until 5:59am the following day. However, it only lists commits on the same day (i.e., it stops working at midnight) – binaryfunt Aug 14 '17 at 23:39

score 73 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '11 at 04:05

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Maybe the best is to use

git log --since="6am"

You can adjust the time to your convenience ;)

answered Feb 25 '11 at 04:05

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Also add --all to see the log of all branches during the period – schoetbi Feb 17 '14 at 07:31
I voted for this one over the other as it appears to be several days earlier. – astrochun Apr 02 '21 at 22:19

score 28 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 01 '15 at 05:36

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To get commits from all of today ...

git log --since=midnight

answered Jul 01 '15 at 05:36

yoyo

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This command will show commits from today midnight 12AM to 11:59PM right ? – Bhumit 070 Dec 14 '22 at 05:16

score 26 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 26 '13 at 08:11

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You can create alias to shorten this command

git config --global alias.today 'log --since=7am'

and then execute:

git today

answered Aug 26 '13 at 08:11

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score 9 · Answer 5 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

There are already several useful correct answers (e.g. git log --since="6am") but it is odd that Git's special dates are missing from the documentation (at least googling "yesterday" "noon" site:git-scm.com returns no results).

There are ways to find out what's available, for example the answers to Specification for syntax of git dates are particularly useful. In one Ryan O'Hara points out that

it seems to accept all formats that it can output, as described in the documentation for the --date option:

--date=(relative|local|default|iso|rfc|short|raw)

Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such as when using --pretty. log.date config variable sets a default value for log command’s --date option.

--date=relative shows dates relative to the current time, e.g. "2 hours ago".

--date=local shows timestamps in user’s local timezone.

--date=iso (or --date=iso8601) shows timestamps in ISO 8601 format.

--date=rfc (or --date=rfc2822) shows timestamps in RFC 2822 format, often found in E-mail messages.

--date=short shows only date but not time, in YYYY-MM-DD format.

--date=raw shows the date in the internal raw git format %s %z format.

--date=default shows timestamps in the original timezone (either committer’s or author’s).

My favourite answer there is from me_and who directs us to the git date.c class. Scan down that and you find this code (at the time of writing it is on line 925):

static const struct special {
    const char *name;
    void (*fn)(struct tm *, struct tm *, int *);
} special[] = {
    { "yesterday", date_yesterday },
    { "noon", date_noon },
    { "midnight", date_midnight },
    { "tea", date_tea },
    { "PM", date_pm },
    { "AM", date_am },
    { "never", date_never },
    { "now", date_now },
    { NULL }
};

I'm definitely using git log --before=tea, though looking at the date_tea function I don't think they've read Rupert Brooke:

static void date_tea(struct tm *tm, struct tm *now, int *num)
{
    date_time(tm, now, 17);
}

score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 05 '14 at 14:04

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Btw, this also works:
git log --since=am

answered Aug 05 '14 at 14:04

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Careful though, this is equivalent to `--since=noon`. – yoyo Jul 01 '15 at 05:35

How to make Git log show all of today's commits?

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`--date=(relative|local|default|iso|rfc|short|raw)`

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