Git Log Displays Nothing

git log does not show any commit!

I noticed that not only git log command but also man command does not show anything for me. It turned out that I just needed to set the PAGER environment variable to less or more programs to solve both problems.

export PAGER=less

May be that the pager is not set up correctly with git.

Diagnostics:

git config core.pager

If it gives empty output or something unexpected, it may be the cause of the problem.

Solution

Try one of the following with xxx = more, less or other pager of choice:

git config core.pager xxx
git config --global core.pager xxx

I've just experienced the same problem, of git log not displaying anything for a particular file. The problem turned out to be Windows was displaying the directory name with an upper-case first letter, but git expected the first letter to be lower-case. So "git log Subdir/file.c" produced no errors and no output. Whereas "git log subdir/file.c" produced the expected revision history.