Documentation/pretty-options.txt

   1 --pretty[='<format>']::
   2
   3         Pretty print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
   4         where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',
   5         'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'.
   6         When left out the format default to 'medium'.
   7
   8 --encoding[=<encoding>]::
   9         The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
  10         in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
  11         command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
  12         preferred by the user.  For non plumbing commands this
  13         defaults to UTF-8.