There are many ways to get history information out of git. Special thanks to Hannes Schneidermayer for this one.
git log --pretty="%C(Yellow)%h %C(reset)%ad (%C(Green)%cr%C(reset))%x09 %C(Cyan)%an: %C(reset)%s"
By far the easiest thing to do is to install GitList which is an elegant and modern git repository viewer . It was significantly easier to set up than gitweb.