[FOR GIT USERS] YoLog – Lightweight Wrapper to Beautify Your Git Logs (opens in new tab)

Glad that you liked it :-)

I respect your opinion. I had a personal desire for a colourful log, and wanted better customization. Initially I set an alias and was good to go, but then I just sat for two hours and packaged it using setuptools.

For future versions I am planning one command change in the theme of git logs, and possibly setting up themes through config files.

The resulting library is a mere 5 KB in size and I got a hang of writing 'yolog' and getting the output :-)

I initially went with a similar approach. But then I locally worked on a few repos locally where I am the author of all commits, so I can strip off name and email for those repos. I know per-repository gitconfigs can exist, but I decided a small wrapper would be more efficient.

Version 0.2.0 is just a minimal functional version, but I am planning to add configuration options where you can turn off, reorder columns, change date format, do anything with a simple single line commands.

I tried it, yours is a bit different, if your columns are smaller than the size you declared it leaves that extra white space, while yolog autofits columns.

I like refs better than email. Thanks for informing, i cannot understand this syntax, can you provide a link to understand ?