How to git log in reverse order?
You don't need to type --reverse all the time, nor do you need a bash function. You can just create a git alias. Open up your favorite text editor and open up your global .gitconfig file. It's usually found in your home directory.
Navigate to or create a section like this:
[alias] lg = log -10 --reverseThat creates a git alias that grabs the ten most recent commits then reverses that list so the most recent of those 10 is at the bottom. Now you can simply run:
git lg
Jakub Narębski's comment ("Note that e.g. git log -10 --reverse would get 10 last commits then reverse list") has been clarified in Git 2.11 (Q4 2016):
See commit 04be694 (27 Sep 2016) by Pranit Bauva (pranitbauva1997).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 54a9f14, 11 Oct 2016)
rev-list-options: clarify the usage of--reverseUsers often wonder if the oldest or the newest
ncommits are shown bylog -n --reverse.
Clarify that--reversekicks in only after deciding which commits are to be shown to unconfuse them.
See Commit Limiting.