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