Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Development Tools Git Branches and Merging Branches Creating Branches

Posted by Dan Oswalt
Dan Oswalt
23,438 Points

`git log` requires `--decorate` to show what's in the video

Hi, I have to add the --decorate flag to git log to show the HEAD and branch information in the commit history. is this normal, or should this be happening by default? In the video he just gets that info using git log

1 Answer

Jay McGavren
STAFF
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

That functionality was only turned on by default in recent versions of Git. Try running git --version to see what version you have installed. These videos were recorded using 2.19.1.