（列表）在提交 SHA 的末尾

Question

This is the output when I do git log :

commit 702e9a6805572075099128ab966da45b5561d50a (HEAD -> dev-832-enable-payments-from-booking-engine)
Author: Me
Date:   Thu Apr 8 09:59:05 2021 +0200

    [dev-832] Guard formatting corrections

commit fff47bee20511cad66ff60b78303779328d839e6
Author: Me
Date:   Wed Apr 7 19:10:30 2021 +0200

    [dev-832] Add relation between merchants and client_transactions

commit 72e9eb4ae83933a703d82s2abc51dc5410c85094
Author: Me
Date:   Wed Apr 7 18:51:43 2021 +0200

    [dev-832] Add missing field to clients table

commit 135dcdfa89d9b982b4466135d11cd0937848b819 (origin/dev-832-enable-payments-from-booking-engine)
Author: Me
Date:   Thu Mar 25 18:51:38 2021 +0100

    [DEV-832] Feat

commit 879aa67d9cd99c3f647111497c32683a6da6e6ba (list)
Author: Someone Else
Date:   Tue Mar 16 10:38:39 2021 +0100

    [DEV-829] Add auto correct for guard rubocop

Notice the (list) flag at the end of commit 879aa67d9cd99c3f647111497c32683a6da6e6ba. That's the commit where I checked out from. My question is: what exactl '(list)' indicate? Does it appear in any other case?

Answer 1

Those are decorations . They are produced by using the --decorate option. If you do not ask specifically for a particular decoration option, you get the one you configured as log.decorate , and if you did not configure one, you get --decorate=auto .

Note that very old versions of Git do not have --decorate=auto as a default, so here, an explicit --decorate is more useful. Since --auto means --decorate=no if git log 's output is not going to a "terminal", --decorate is still sometimes useful anyway. ¹

See also How to interpret the brackets in the git log?

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¹ "Terminal" is defined as anything for which isatty(1) returns true . This therefore depends on the behavior of your system's C library isatty function. On a Unix-like system, this means in any standard terminal window as long as you are not redirecting your git log output to a file or pipe.