6 git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
12 'git-rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ]
13 [ \--max-age=timestamp ]
14 [ \--min-age=timestamp ]
23 [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
24 [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
25 [ \--pretty | \--header ]
28 <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ]
33 Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the
34 given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account. This is
35 useful to produce human-readable log output.
37 Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to
38 stop at that point. Their parents are implied. Thus the following
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42 $ git-rev-list foo bar ^baz
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45 means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but
48 A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
49 short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of
50 the following may be used interchangeably:
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53 $ git-rev-list origin..HEAD
54 $ git-rev-list HEAD ^origin
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57 Another special notation is "'<commit1>'...'<commit2>'" which is useful
58 for merges. The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference
59 between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent:
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62 $ git-rev-list A B --not $(git-merge-base --all A B)
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66 gitlink:git-rev-list[1] is a very essential git program, since it
67 provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For
68 this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be
69 used by commands as different as gitlink:git-bisect[1] and
70 gitlink:git-repack[1].
78 Using these options, gitlink:git-rev-list[1] will act similar to the
79 more specialized family of commit log tools: gitlink:git-log[1],
80 gitlink:git-show[1], and gitlink:git-whatchanged[1]
82 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
86 Show dates relative to the current time, e.g. "2 hours ago".
87 Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such
88 as when using "--pretty".
92 Print the contents of the commit in raw-format; each record is
93 separated with a NUL character.
97 Print the parents of the commit.
102 Below are listed options that control the formatting of diff output.
103 Some of them are specific to gitlink:git-rev-list[1], however other diff
104 options may be given. See gitlink:git-diff-files[1] for more options.
108 This flag changes the way a merge commit is displayed. It shows
109 the differences from each of the parents to the merge result
110 simultaneously instead of showing pairwise diff between a parent
111 and the result one at a time. Furthermore, it lists only files
112 which were modified from all parents.
116 This flag implies the '-c' options and further compresses the
117 patch output by omitting hunks that show differences from only
118 one parent, or show the same change from all but one parent for
123 Show recursive diffs.
127 Show the tree objects in the diff output. This implies '-r'.
132 Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the
133 special notations explained in the description, additional commit
134 limiting may be applied.
138 -n 'number', --max-count='number'::
140 Limit the number of commits output.
142 --since='date', --after='date'::
144 Show commits more recent than a specific date.
146 --until='date', --before='date'::
148 Show commits older than a specific date.
150 --max-age='timestamp', --min-age='timestamp'::
152 Limit the commits output to specified time range.
154 --author='pattern', --committer='pattern'::
156 Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
157 header lines that match the specified pattern.
161 Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
162 matches the specified pattern.
166 Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
170 Do not print commits with more than one parent.
174 Reverses the meaning of the '{caret}' prefix (or lack thereof)
175 for all following revision specifiers, up to the next '--not'.
179 Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/` are listed on the
180 command line as '<commit>'.
184 In addition to the '<commit>' listed on the command
185 line, read them from the standard input.
189 After a failed merge, show refs that touch files having a
190 conflict and don't exist on all heads to merge.
194 Output uninteresting commits at the boundary, which are usually
199 When optional paths are given, the default behaviour ('--dense') is to
200 only output commits that changes at least one of them, and also ignore
201 merges that do not touch the given paths.
203 Use the '--sparse' flag to makes the command output all eligible commits
204 (still subject to count and age limitation), but apply merge
205 simplification nevertheless.
209 Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway between
210 the included and excluded commits. Thus, if
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213 $ git-rev-list --bisect foo ^bar ^baz
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216 outputs 'midpoint', the output of the two commands
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219 $ git-rev-list foo ^midpoint
220 $ git-rev-list midpoint ^bar ^baz
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223 would be of roughly the same length. Finding the change which
224 introduces a regression is thus reduced to a binary search: repeatedly
225 generate and test new 'midpoint's until the commit chain is of length
233 By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order.
237 This option makes them appear in topological order (i.e.
238 descendant commits are shown before their parents).
242 This option is similar to '--topo-order' in the sense that no
243 parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things
244 are still ordered in the commit timestamp order.
249 These options are mostly targeted for packing of git repositories.
253 Print the object IDs of any object referenced by the listed
254 commits. 'git-rev-list --objects foo ^bar' thus means "send me
255 all object IDs which I need to download if I have the commit
256 object 'bar', but not 'foo'".
260 Similar to '--objects', but also print the IDs of excluded
261 commits prefixed with a "-" character. This is used by
262 gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] to build "thin" pack, which records
263 objects in deltified form based on objects contained in these
264 excluded commits to reduce network traffic.
268 Only useful with '--objects'; print the object IDs that are not
273 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
277 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca
278 and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
282 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite