6 git-reflog - Manage reflog information
11 'git reflog' <subcommand> <options>
15 The command takes various subcommands, and different options
16 depending on the subcommand:
19 git reflog expire [--dry-run] [--stale-fix] [--verbose]
20 [--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--all] <refs>...
22 git reflog delete ref@\{specifier\}...
24 git reflog [show] [log-options] [<ref>]
26 Reflog is a mechanism to record when the tip of branches are
27 updated. This command is to manage the information recorded in it.
29 The subcommand "expire" is used to prune older reflog entries.
30 Entries older than `expire` time, or entries older than
31 `expire-unreachable` time and are not reachable from the current
32 tip, are removed from the reflog. This is typically not used
33 directly by the end users -- instead, see linkgit:git-gc[1].
35 The subcommand "show" (which is also the default, in the absence of any
36 subcommands) will take all the normal log options, and show the log of
37 the reference provided in the command-line (or `HEAD`, by default).
38 The reflog will cover all recent actions (HEAD reflog records branch switching
39 as well). It is an alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline';
40 see linkgit:git-log[1].
42 The reflog is useful in various git commands, to specify the old value
43 of a reference. For example, `HEAD@\{2\}` means "where HEAD used to be
44 two moves ago", `master@\{one.week.ago\}` means "where master used to
45 point to one week ago", and so on. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] for
48 To delete single entries from the reflog, use the subcommand "delete"
49 and specify the _exact_ entry (e.g. ``git reflog delete master@\{2\}'').
56 This revamps the logic -- the definition of "broken commit"
57 becomes: a commit that is not reachable from any of the refs and
58 there is a missing object among the commit, tree, or blob
59 objects reachable from it that is not reachable from any of the
62 This computation involves traversing all the reachable objects, i.e. it
63 has the same cost as 'git prune'. Fortunately, once this is run, we
64 should not have to ever worry about missing objects, because the current
65 prune and pack-objects know about reflogs and protect objects referred by
69 Entries older than this time are pruned. Without the
70 option it is taken from configuration `gc.reflogExpire`,
71 which in turn defaults to 90 days.
73 --expire-unreachable=<time>::
74 Entries older than this time and are not reachable from
75 the current tip of the branch are pruned. Without the
76 option it is taken from configuration
77 `gc.reflogExpireUnreachable`, which in turn defaults to
81 Instead of listing <refs> explicitly, prune all refs.
84 Update the ref with the sha1 of the top reflog entry (i.e.
85 <ref>@\{0\}) after expiring or deleting.
88 While expiring or deleting, adjust each reflog entry to ensure
89 that the `old` sha1 field points to the `new` sha1 field of the
93 Print extra information on screen.
97 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
101 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
105 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite