How to fix/adjust git log result's indentation in terminal

Question

In VS Code terminal on Windows,

I am trying to display my commits by using git log and somehow, the displayed result's indentation are broken.

AFAIK, I accidentally pressed arrow keys which move the screen of terminal in VS Code to the right.

I git add and commit them like this:

    feature/POR-1-landing-page-ui
      * Remove @webpack-cli/generators
      * Sanitize spaces to tabs

But the indents appear like this when I git log

and there's large indent between the * and #commit messages .

$ git log

commit b153284 (HEAD -> feature/POR-1-landing-page-ui)

    feature/POR-1-landing-page-ui
            *       Remove @webpack-cli/generators
            *       Sanitize spaces to tabs

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This is how I want the indents to be displayed. When there are too many changes, it's difficult to read the commit messages because of the large indents.

commit 7a0dcb4

    feature/POR-1-landing-page-ui
      * Sanitize imports
      * Sanitize indents
      * Sanitize folder name

I tried to restart the integrated terminal first and still the same, afterwards tried restarting vscode nothing happens also. I checked VS Code settings but nothing was modified.

Answer 1

Just figure out a workaround for this

Using VS Code commit editor just replace the indents to spaces

Convert indents to spaces from the settings before committing.

Because the terminal is interpretting indents as 4 spaces mentioned by @torek

git log adds four spaces in front of the commit log message data by default. Other than that it just sends it directly to the terminal or through a pager to the terminal; interpretation of spaces, tabs, escape sequences, and the like are up to the pager (if you're using one) and then the terminal.

commit 7a0dcb4

    feature/POR-1-landing-page-ui
      * Sanitize imports
      * Sanitize indents
      * Sanitize folder name