Documentation/git-rev-list.txt

   1 git-rev-list(1)
   2 ===============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 [verse]
  12 'git-rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ]
  13              [ \--skip=number ]
  14              [ \--max-age=timestamp ]
  15              [ \--min-age=timestamp ]
  16              [ \--sparse ]
  17              [ \--merges ]
  18              [ \--no-merges ]
  19              [ \--first-parent ]
  20              [ \--remove-empty ]
  21              [ \--full-history ]
  22              [ \--not ]
  23              [ \--all ]
  24              [ \--branches ]
  25              [ \--tags ]
  26              [ \--remotes ]
  27              [ \--stdin ]
  28              [ \--quiet ]
  29              [ \--topo-order ]
  30              [ \--parents ]
  31              [ \--timestamp ]
  32              [ \--left-right ]
  33              [ \--cherry-pick ]
  34              [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
  35              [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
  36              [ \--regexp-ignore-case | -i ]
  37              [ \--extended-regexp | -E ]
  38              [ \--fixed-strings | -F ]
  39              [ \--date={local|relative|default|iso|rfc|short} ]
  40              [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
  41              [ \--pretty | \--header ]
  42              [ \--bisect ]
  43              [ \--bisect-vars ]
  44              [ \--bisect-all ]
  45              [ \--merge ]
  46              [ \--reverse ]
  47              [ \--walk-reflogs ]
  48              [ \--no-walk ] [ \--do-walk ]
  49              <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ]
  50
  51 DESCRIPTION
  52 -----------
  53
  54 Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the
  55 given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account.  This is
  56 useful to produce human-readable log output.
  57
  58 Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to
  59 stop at that point. Their parents are implied. Thus the following
  60 command:
  61
  62 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  63         $ git rev-list foo bar ^baz
  64 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  65
  66 means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but
  67 not in 'baz'".
  68
  69 A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
  70 short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of
  71 the following may be used interchangeably:
  72
  73 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  74         $ git rev-list origin..HEAD
  75         $ git rev-list HEAD ^origin
  76 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  77
  78 Another special notation is "'<commit1>'...'<commit2>'" which is useful
  79 for merges.  The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference
  80 between the two operands.  The following two commands are equivalent:
  81
  82 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  83         $ git rev-list A B --not $(git merge-base --all A B)
  84         $ git rev-list A...B
  85 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  86
  87 'git-rev-list' is a very essential git program, since it
  88 provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For
  89 this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be
  90 used by commands as different as 'git-bisect' and
  91 'git-repack'.
  92
  93 OPTIONS
  94 -------
  95
  96 :git-rev-list: 1
  97 include::rev-list-options.txt[]
  98
  99 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 100
 101
 102 Author
 103 ------
 104 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 105
 106 Documentation
 107 --------------
 108 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca
 109 and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 110
 111 GIT
 112 ---
 113 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite