diff --git a/Git.sublime-settings b/Git.sublime-settings
index acd87e81..eeef9736 100644
--- a/Git.sublime-settings
+++ b/Git.sublime-settings
@@ -37,4 +37,7 @@
 
 	// e.g. "Packages/Git/syntax/Git Commit Message.tmLanguage"
 	,"diff_syntax": "Packages/Diff/Diff.tmLanguage"
+
+	// %H to have more convinent way to search by changeset hash
+	,"log_format": "%s (%h)\\a%an <%aE>\\a%ad (%ar)"
 }
diff --git a/history.py b/history.py
index dd5019fb..1d910a7a 100644
--- a/history.py
+++ b/history.py
@@ -49,13 +49,18 @@ def run(self, edit=None):
         return self.run_log(fn != '', '--', fn)
 
     def run_log(self, follow, *args):
+        s = sublime.load_settings("Git.sublime-settings")
+        log_format_fallback = '%s (%h)\a%an <%aE>\a%ad (%ar)'
+        # all this to remove convert json escape \\a to \a
+        log_format = bytes(s.get('log_format', log_format_fallback), 'utf-8').decode('unicode_escape')
+
         # the ASCII bell (\a) is just a convenient character I'm pretty sure
         # won't ever come up in the subject of the commit (and if it does then
         # you positively deserve broken output...)
         # 9000 is a pretty arbitrarily chosen limit; picked entirely because
         # it's about the size of the largest repo I've tested this on... and
         # there's a definite hiccup when it's loading that
-        command = ['git', 'log', '--no-color', '--pretty=%s (%h)\a%an <%aE>\a%ad (%ar)',
+        command = ['git', 'log', '--no-color', '--pretty=' + log_format,
             '--date=local', '--max-count=9000', '--follow' if follow else None]
         command.extend(args)
         self.run_command(