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Development Tools Get Together with Git

Posted by silva celso
silva celso
13,513 Points

git log? is your commits stored is it only temporarily in RAM?

when you go git log, where exactly is that log file of all your commits stored locally or is that something only in memory?

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there, silva celso ! No, your commits are not temporary. As I understand it, the git.log command reads from the files in the .git\logs subdirectory and prints it out for you in a nicely formatted way. Your commits are safely saved, and if you use it in conjunction with GitHub (or the equivalent), they will also be saved in the cloud. If you cannot see the .git subdirectory and you're using Windows, you may have to enable the ability to see hidden folders as this will count as hidden.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

silva celso
silva celso
13,513 Points

Certainly does. I was told that the commits are only stored in memory which did not make much sense to me. Thx, i will look at that file.