Get Git log in JSON format
git log --pretty=format:'{%n "commit": "%H",%n "abbreviated_commit": "%h",%n "tree": "%T",%n "abbreviated_tree": "%t",%n "parent": "%P",%n "abbreviated_parent": "%p",%n "refs": "%D",%n "encoding": "%e",%n "subject": "%s",%n "sanitized_subject_line": "%f",%n "body": "%b",%n "commit_notes": "%N",%n "verification_flag": "%G?",%n "signer": "%GS",%n "signer_key": "%GK",%n "author": {%n "name": "%aN",%n "email": "%aE",%n "date": "%aD"%n },%n "commiter": {%n "name": "%cN",%n "email": "%cE",%n "date": "%cD"%n }%n},'
The only information that aren't fetched are:
%B
: raw body (unwrapped subject and body)%GG
: raw verification message from GPG for a signed commit
The format is applied to each line, so once you get all the lines, you need to remove the trailing ,
and wrap them around an Array.
git log pretty format source: http://git-scm.com/docs/pretty-formats
If you need something that can package multiline commit messages into json; https://gist.github.com/cekstam/a7758b8f315835d479f379715eebd0c3