log first 10 in git

Question

Two questions:

1. How to show the first 10 commit in git from beginning to end. (no branch)
2. How the specify the commit index and log it. (show the second or

Answer 1

Because... more detail :p

1. How to show the first 10 commit in git from beginning to end. (no branch)
2. How the specify the commit index and log it. (show the second or third)

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By (no branch), you might be asking about the reflog rather than any given ancestry chain. The following has nothing to do with the branch you are on.

git log -g --pretty=oneline | tail -10

 HEAD@{###}: action: summary (old)
 HEAD@{###}: action: summary (older)
...
 HEAD@{###}: action: summary (oldest)

• -g is --walk-reflogs Instead of walking the commit ancestry chain, walk reflog entries.q
• add |cut -d ' ' -f 2|tr -d ':' > log to log only the reflog commit index.

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The following will show the earliest ancestors of the currently checked out branch.

git log --reverse --pretty=oneline | head -10 | cat -n

1  summary (oldest)
2  summary (second)

• --reverse Output the commits in reverse order.
• Can't use simply -n 10 or -10 since it breaks --reverse
• cat -n adds line numbers (commit index?)

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