In Eclipse when you interact with a Subversion server, there is an SVN console which displays all the svn commands that the ide performs against the subversion server.
Thanks, Mark.
You can get the actual git commands with timestamps in the "Version Control" view.
You can enable that in View -> Tool Windows -> Version Control
Update for more recent versions:
The tool window is now named according to your VCS e.g. Git, Mercurial. To see the commands, you need to switch to the Console
tab.