Summarise Your Git Log for a Daily Standup

Staring at a dense git log five minutes before standup isn't the best way to remember what you did yesterday. Let Claude summarise it for you.

git log --since="yesterday" --oneline --author="$(git config user.email)" | \
  claude -p "Summarise these commits into 2-3 bullet points suitable for a standup update. Be concise and focus on what was accomplished, not the implementation details."

The output will be something your team actually wants to hear — grouped by theme, written in plain English, free of commit message noise like "wip", "fix typo", and "more changes".

You can extend the window for a weekly summary:

git log --since="1 week ago" --oneline | \
  claude -p "Give me a brief weekly summary of this work, suitable for a Friday progress update."

Or pull from multiple repos if your work spans them:

(cd ~/projects/api && git log --since="yesterday" --oneline; \
 cd ~/projects/frontend && git log --since="yesterday" --oneline) | \
  claude -p "Summarise this cross-repo work for a standup."

Save any of these as a shell alias and you've got a one-command standup generator.

Your commit history knows what you did — Claude just makes it readable.