View Git Commit Summary Excluding Merges (Challenge)

Introduction

When working with Git, it's important to be able to view a summary of all the commits made to a repository. However, sometimes merge commits can clutter up the output and make it difficult to see the actual changes made. In this challenge, you will learn how to view a short summary of all commits excluding merge commits.

Skills Graph

View a Short Summary of Commits without Merge Commits

You have been working on a project with several other developers, and you want to see a summary of all the commits made to the repository. However, you don't want to see the merge commits, as they don't contain any actual changes to the code. How can you view a summary of all the commits excluding merge commits?

Tasks

For this challenge, let's use the repository from https://github.com/labex-labs/git-playground.

1. Navigate to the directory and configure the identity.
2. Create and switch to a branch called feature1, create a file called file.txt and write "feature 1" into it, add it to the staging area and commit it with the message "Add feature 1".
3. Switch back to the master branch, merge the feature1 branch, disable the forward merge, save and exit without changing the text.
4. View a short summary of all commits excluding merge commits.

This will output a list of all the commits made to the repository, excluding any merge commits. The output will look something like this:

430b986 (feature1) Add feature 1
d22f46b (origin/master, origin/HEAD) Added file2.txt
cf80005 Added file1.txt
b00b937 Initial commit

Summary

In this challenge, you learned how to view a short summary of all commits excluding merge commits. This can be useful when you want to see a quick overview of all the changes made to a repository without being distracted by merge commits.