6 git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
12 'git rev-list' [<options>] <commit>... [--] [<path>...]
18 include::rev-list-description.txt[]
20 'rev-list' is a very essential Git command, since it
21 provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For
22 this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be
23 used by commands as different as 'git bisect' and
30 include::rev-list-options.txt[]
32 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
37 * Print the list of commits reachable from the current branch.
43 * Print the list of commits on this branch, but not present in the
47 git rev-list @{upstream}..HEAD
50 * Format commits with their author and commit message (see also the
51 porcelain linkgit:git-log[1]).
54 git rev-list --format=medium HEAD
57 * Format commits along with their diffs (see also the porcelain
58 linkgit:git-log[1], which can do this in a single process).
62 git diff-tree --stdin --format=medium -p
65 * Print the list of commits on the current branch that touched any
66 file in the `Documentation` directory.
69 git rev-list HEAD -- Documentation/
72 * Print the list of commits authored by you in the past year, on
73 any branch, tag, or other ref.
76 git rev-list --author=you@example.com --since=1.year.ago --all
79 * Print the list of objects reachable from the current branch (i.e., all
80 commits and the blobs and trees they contain).
83 git rev-list --objects HEAD
86 * Compare the disk size of all reachable objects, versus those
87 reachable from reflogs, versus the total packed size. This can tell
88 you whether running `git repack -ad` might reduce the repository size
89 (by dropping unreachable objects), and whether expiring reflogs might
94 git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all
96 git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all --reflog
97 # total disk size used
98 du -c .git/objects/pack/*.pack .git/objects/??/*
99 # alternative to du: add up "size" and "size-pack" fields
103 * Report the disk size of each branch, not including objects used by the
104 current branch. This can find outliers that are contributing to a
105 bloated repository size (e.g., because somebody accidentally committed
106 large build artifacts).
109 git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' |
112 size=$(git rev-list --disk-usage --objects HEAD..$branch)
118 * Compare the on-disk size of branches in one group of refs, excluding
119 another. If you co-mingle objects from multiple remotes in a single
120 repository, this can show which remotes are contributing to the
121 repository size (taking the size of `origin` as a baseline).
124 git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --remotes=$suspect --not --remotes=origin
129 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite