Given a repository with a single commit:
git init touch "file.txt" git add file.txt git commit -m "Subject" -m "First paragraph" -m "Second paragraph"
git log --format=medium
The “medium” format is the default when passing no --format option:
git log
commit f142f6d3327fbc17ff3f9a7f6c4157d70da7083f
Author: Alice <alice@example.com>
Date: Thu Jul 22 07:45:25 2021 +0200
Subject
First paragraph
Second paragraph
git log --format=oneline
git log --format=oneline
f142f6d3327fbc17ff3f9a7f6c4157d70da7083f Subject
git log --format=short
git log --format=short
commit f142f6d3327fbc17ff3f9a7f6c4157d70da7083f
Author: Alice <alice@example.com>
Subject
git log --format=full
git log --format=full
commit f142f6d3327fbc17ff3f9a7f6c4157d70da7083f
Author: Alice <alice@example.com>
Commit: Bob <bob@example.com>
Subject
First paragraph
Second paragraph
git log --format=fuller
git log --format=fuller
commit f142f6d3327fbc17ff3f9a7f6c4157d70da7083f
Author: Alice <alice@example.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jul 22 07:45:25 2021 +0200
Commit: Bob <bob@example.com>
CommitDate: Thu Jul 22 07:45:25 2021 +0200
Subject
First paragraph
Second paragraph
git log --format=email
git log --format=email
From f142f6d3327fbc17ff3f9a7f6c4157d70da7083f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alice <alice@example.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 07:45:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Subject First paragraph Second paragraph
git log --format=raw
git log --format=raw
commit f142f6d3327fbc17ff3f9a7f6c4157d70da7083f
tree bdd68b0120ca91384c1606468b4ca81b8f67c728
author Alice <alice@example.com> 1626932725 +0200
committer Bob <bob@example.com> 1626932725 +0200
Subject
First paragraph
Second paragraph