Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Pretty Formatting of Git Log

This video tutorial explains how to customize the output of the Git log command using various formatting options. It covers the use of format specifiers to display specific commit information, such as the committer's name and commit hash. The tutorial also demonstrates how to include additional details like commit dates and how to format the output in a human-readable way. Finally, it introduces the concept of filtering merge commits, which will be covered in the next lecture.

How can you output a shortened version of the SHA-1 hash for each commit?

Describe how to include the commit date in the output of the Git log command.