Git Log Displays Nothing

I have a number of git repositories (with commits) and each displays nothing whe开发者_如何学编程n running git log. If I run the command outside a project directory (without a git repository) I get:

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

I tried re-installing Git (I'm now running 1.7.5.4) and re-cloning my repositories to no avail. Any ideas?

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git log does not show any commit!

I noticed that not only git log command but also man command does not show anything for me. It turned out that I just needed to set the PAGER environment variable to less or more programs to solve both problems.

export PAGER=less

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I've just experienced the same problem, of git log not displaying anything for a particular file. The problem turned out to be Windows was displaying the directory name with an upper-case first letter, but git expected the first letter to be lower-case. So "git log Subdir/file.c" produced no errors and no output. Whereas "git log subdir/file.c" produced the expected revision history.

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May be that the pager is not set up correctly with git.

Diagnostics:

git config core.pager

If it gives empty output or something unexpected, it may be the cause of the problem.

Solution

Try one of the following with xxx = more, less or other pager of choice:

git config core.pager xxx
git config --global core.pager xxx

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The fatal error for running a git command outside a project directory is expected. Not getting any log messages at all for running git log is not.

Try running gitk to see if you can see the log history there.

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If you do not have any commits, it would not show anything and error. Also, if you don't have a current commit in a bare repo, you can still show all commits in a repo with `git log --all'.

You can also see what branches you have with

git branch -a

then you can git checkout branchX. You would be able to get output from git log then - provided you have some commits there. If you have bare repos, you can't checkout.

Hope this helps.

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I have the same problem (and "git diff" doesn't work either), I still do not know why but I workaround :

git rev-list --all --reverse

Or better (only 10 last commits with message information) :

git rev-list --all --max-count=10 --reverse --pretty

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i had the similar issue with a log to a file. 1] get a list of your config files git config --list 2] check this entry core.filemode=false change it to true git config core.filemode true 3] check your files path in gitk 4] i had the wrong path. now it works. git log -- ./Documents/holdMe.txt

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For those who still don't come up with solution: Check your firewall, mine (Comodo on windows10) was blocking Git\usr\bin\less.exe.

After removing it from blocked apps it worked fine.