Try this crazy thing (similar to that used in the script): git submodule --quiet foreach "git log --abbrev=8 --no-merges -- pretty=format: \"%at:%h: %ar: %an: [\$(basename \$PWD)] %B%x01\"" | tr "\n" "\0" | tr "\1" "\n" | sed -e "s|^\x00||" -e "s|\x00$||" | sort -rn | sed - e "s| ^[^:]*:||" -e "s|\x00|\n|g" | less -FX