To see some more stats, such as the names of all the files changed during that commit and number of insertions/deletions. This comes in very handy while reviewing the code -
git log --stat
To see commit histories in some pretty formats :) (This is followed by some prebuild options)-
If you have too many commits to review, this command will show them in a neat single line:
git log --pretty=oneline
To see short, medium, full, or even more details of your commit, use following, respectively -