Get commit list between tags in git
GitGit Problem Overview
If I've a git repository with tags representing the versions of the releases.
How can I get the list of the commits between two tags (with a pretty format if is possible) ?
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
git log --pretty=oneline tagA...tagB (i.e. three dots)
If you just wanted commits reachable from tagB but not tagA:
git log --pretty=oneline tagA..tagB (i.e. two dots)
or
git log --pretty=oneline ^tagA tagB
Solution 2 - Git
To compare between latest commit of current branch and a tag:
git log --pretty=oneline HEAD...tag
Solution 3 - Git
git log takes a range of commits as an argument:
git log --pretty=[your_choice] tag1..tag2
See the man page for git rev-parse for more info.
Solution 4 - Git
To style the output to your preferred pretty format, see the man page for git-log.
Example:
git log --pretty=format:"%h; author: %cn; date: %ci; subject:%s" tagA...tagB
Solution 5 - Git
FYI:
git log tagA...tagB
provides standard log output in a range.
Solution 6 - Git
Solution 7 - Git
If your team uses descriptive commit messages (eg. "Ticket #12345 - Update dependencies") on this project, then generating changelog since the latest tag can de done like this:
git log --no-merges --pretty=format:"%s" 'old-tag^'...new-tag > /path/to/changelog.md
--no-mergesomits the merge commits from the listold-tag^refers to the previous commit earlier than the tagged one. Useful if you want to see the tagged commit at the bottom of the list by any reason. (Single quotes needed only for iTerm on mac OS).