So I recently rebased a branch and merged it into master. When I do git log, I get a pretty, linear history of commits. But I want to see my commit history based on timestamp so I can easily compare when the commits on two branches were made in realtime.
Is there a git log option that can order commits by timestamp instead of their normal commit history? I can't seem to find one. Thanks!
Things might have changed since the question was asked, but in the current git 2.35 there are three different orderings for logs. From the git log help page:
--date-order: Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but otherwise show commits in the commit timestamp order.--author-date-order: Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but otherwise show commits in the author timestamp order.--topo-order: Show no parents before all of its children are shown, and avoid showing commits on multiple lines of history intermixed.The default is --date-order, although --graph implies --topo-order.
With rebased branches, --date-order will sort by when the commits were rebased, while --author-date-order will sort by when they were originally committed.
(Keep in mind though that there are various ways to mess about with timestamps, so they're not entirely reliable.)