How do I get the git commit description in node?

Question

I need a safe consitent way to get the git description of latest commit in node.js

git commit -m "some message" -m "this is the description"

I am using require('child_process').execSync('git log -1').toString();

which outputs:

commit f8f42hash5556666b3c518e3hash294b62e88888
Author: Developer Name <email@email.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 28 08:10:09 2022 +0200

    some message

    this is the description

And I know that it is possible to add some -format='????' but following this guide; https://devhints.io/git-log-format I can't seem to find a option that gives me the description...

Edit: I see comments about description and message being treated as oine thing, which surprises me, because gitlabs interface can in fact tell the difference, I have also seen them as separetae fields in som GUI git manager (maybe git kraken or a vscode plugin)..

Here's how it looks in gitlab (--skipSmokeTest is the description)

Answer 1

你可以得到这样的消息： git log -1 --format='%b'
它将返回：

 some message this is the description

然后您可以使用 JavaScript 提取第二行文本。

Answer 2

请注意，根据Git 日志文档，正确的选项是--pretty ！

对我来说，你应该使用它，它对我有用： git log -1 --pretty="format:%s" 。