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Asked: 2026-05-24T23:21:58+00:00

I am using gitk –all to view the git log. gitk does not display

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I am using gitk –all to view the git log. gitk does not display the sha hash for each commit. you need to manually click on the commit to view the sha hash. I want to see the sha hash and the branch name in a single view.

How to display the tag-names and branch names using the git log command.

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  1. Editorial Team

    With git log (so, not gitk), you can use the decorate option (%d) in a pretty format, for displaying the branch name (but only for commits which are the HEAD of said branches):

    alias.lgb=log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset%n' --abbrev-commit --date=relative --branches

    (you have to declare that alias with:

    git config --global alias.lgb "log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset%n' --abbrev-commit --date=relative --branches"

    Then you can use it with ‘git lgb‘. Note: you can name it with a different alias.
    )

    Will give:

    * e33afe7 - (HEAD, master) fix zlib make install issue on cygwin (8 seconds ago) <VonC>
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* f825f36 - add CPPFLAG option for cygwin compilation of gcc (26 hours ago) <VonC>
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* 9341979 - (origin/master, origin/HEAD) update error messages for compiling gcc within cygwin (2 days ago) <VonC>
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* 42d81af - copy dll in $H/usr/local/bin instead of linking when compiling in cygwin (3 days ago) <VonC>

    Update Git 2.2 (November 2014): see commit 9271095 from Harry Jeffery (eXeC64):

    pretty: add %D format specifier

    Add a new format specifier, ‘%D‘ that is identical in behaviour to ‘%d‘, except that it does not include the ‘ (‘ prefix or ‘)‘ suffix provided by ‘%d‘.

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