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Git log shows you all your commit messages and the revision hash, but often git log would be more useful showing files changed. (You should still try to write commit messages as if the reader will have no context except, at best, the project itself.)

git log --name-only -5

Moving this tip over from where I posted it at Lullabot in their 50 tiips thread.

Specifically, put this in the custom argument code:

<?php
drupal_set_message('<pre>' . print_r($view, TRUE) . '</pre>');
?>

(PHP tags used for formatting here and are not entered into the argument code textbox.

To do this on a live site without regular folks seeing, while you're online as user #1, you can use this: