Git Log in Powershell

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My command is to pull log from repository based on a previous tag till the latest HEAD. Below is the command i run in powershell

git log 10.01.39.000..head --oneline --name-only --pretty=format:

The same when i try to do it by substituting a variable in place of the tag name does not give me the output. Should the .. be escaped in powershell? Powershell is considering the ..Head as a method for the variable.

git log $tag..head --oneline --name-only --pretty=format:

You should try either "$tag..HEAD" or "$($tag)..HEAD", one of those should work, but you should include the double quotes, otherwise Powershell might separate on .. and add some spaces (has been my experience) — Lasse V. Karlsen
– Lasse V. Karlsen, Commented Jan 6, 2022 at 10:00
Also, you should in general get in the habit of typing HEAD in all caps, or use its one-character synonym @. Lowercase head sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, and when it doesn't, the result can be pretty bad sometimes. — torek
– torek, Commented Jan 6, 2022 at 19:49

Mathias R. Jessen · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-06 10:48:08Z

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In this case, you want to:

Force expansion of $tag before passing the argument to git
Prevent evaluation of the .. operator

The easiest way to do this is to construct an expandable string literal using ":

git log "$tag..head" --oneline --name-only --pretty=format:...

answered Jan 6, 2022 at 10:48

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Danny Schneider Over a year ago

This saved me further days in debugging azure pipeline scripts!

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