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405 <h1>
406 git-for-each-ref(1) Manual Page
407 </h1>
408 <h2>NAME</h2>
409 <div class="sectionbody">
410 <p>git-for-each-ref -
411 Output information on each ref
412 </p>
413 </div>
414 </div>
415 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
416 <div class="sectionbody">
417 <div class="verseblock">
418 <div class="verseblock-content"><em>git for-each-ref</em> [--count=&lt;count&gt;] [--shell|--perl|--python|--tcl]
419 [(--sort=&lt;key&gt;)&#8230;] [--format=&lt;format&gt;] [&lt;pattern&gt;&#8230;]</div>
420 <div class="verseblock-attribution">
421 </div></div>
422 </div>
423 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
424 <div class="sectionbody">
425 <div class="paragraph"><p>Iterate over all refs that match <tt>&lt;pattern&gt;</tt> and show them
426 according to the given <tt>&lt;format&gt;</tt>, after sorting them according
427 to the given set of <tt>&lt;key&gt;</tt>. If <tt>&lt;count&gt;</tt> is given, stop after
428 showing that many refs. The interpolated values in <tt>&lt;format&gt;</tt>
429 can optionally be quoted as string literals in the specified
430 host language allowing their direct evaluation in that language.</p></div>
431 </div>
432 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
433 <div class="sectionbody">
434 <div class="dlist"><dl>
435 <dt class="hdlist1">
436 &lt;count&gt;
437 </dt>
438 <dd>
440 By default the command shows all refs that match
441 <tt>&lt;pattern&gt;</tt>. This option makes it stop after showing
442 that many refs.
443 </p>
444 </dd>
445 <dt class="hdlist1">
446 &lt;key&gt;
447 </dt>
448 <dd>
450 A field name to sort on. Prefix <tt>-</tt> to sort in
451 descending order of the value. When unspecified,
452 <tt>refname</tt> is used. You may use the --sort=&lt;key&gt; option
453 multiple times, in which case the last key becomes the primary
454 key.
455 </p>
456 </dd>
457 <dt class="hdlist1">
458 &lt;format&gt;
459 </dt>
460 <dd>
462 A string that interpolates <tt>%(fieldname)</tt> from the
463 object pointed at by a ref being shown. If <tt>fieldname</tt>
464 is prefixed with an asterisk (<tt>*</tt>) and the ref points
465 at a tag object, the value for the field in the object
466 tag refers is used. When unspecified, defaults to
467 <tt>%(objectname) SPC %(objecttype) TAB %(refname)</tt>.
468 It also interpolates <tt>%%</tt> to <tt>%</tt>, and <tt>%xx</tt> where <tt>xx</tt>
469 are hex digits interpolates to character with hex code
470 <tt>xx</tt>; for example <tt>%00</tt> interpolates to <tt>\0</tt> (NUL),
471 <tt>%09</tt> to <tt>\t</tt> (TAB) and <tt>%0a</tt> to <tt>\n</tt> (LF).
472 </p>
473 </dd>
474 <dt class="hdlist1">
475 &lt;pattern&gt;&#8230;
476 </dt>
477 <dd>
479 If one or more patterns are given, only refs are shown that
480 match against at least one pattern, either using fnmatch(3) or
481 literally, in the latter case matching completely or from the
482 beginning up to a slash.
483 </p>
484 </dd>
485 <dt class="hdlist1">
486 --shell
487 </dt>
488 <dt class="hdlist1">
489 --perl
490 </dt>
491 <dt class="hdlist1">
492 --python
493 </dt>
494 <dt class="hdlist1">
495 --tcl
496 </dt>
497 <dd>
499 If given, strings that substitute <tt>%(fieldname)</tt>
500 placeholders are quoted as string literals suitable for
501 the specified host language. This is meant to produce
502 a scriptlet that can directly be `eval`ed.
503 </p>
504 </dd>
505 </dl></div>
506 </div>
507 <h2 id="_field_names">FIELD NAMES</h2>
508 <div class="sectionbody">
509 <div class="paragraph"><p>Various values from structured fields in referenced objects can
510 be used to interpolate into the resulting output, or as sort
511 keys.</p></div>
512 <div class="paragraph"><p>For all objects, the following names can be used:</p></div>
513 <div class="dlist"><dl>
514 <dt class="hdlist1">
515 refname
516 </dt>
517 <dd>
519 The name of the ref (the part after $GIT_DIR/).
520 For a non-ambiguous short name of the ref append <tt>:short</tt>.
521 The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
522 abbreviation mode.
523 </p>
524 </dd>
525 <dt class="hdlist1">
526 objecttype
527 </dt>
528 <dd>
530 The type of the object (<tt>blob</tt>, <tt>tree</tt>, <tt>commit</tt>, <tt>tag</tt>).
531 </p>
532 </dd>
533 <dt class="hdlist1">
534 objectsize
535 </dt>
536 <dd>
538 The size of the object (the same as <em>git cat-file -s</em> reports).
539 </p>
540 </dd>
541 <dt class="hdlist1">
542 objectname
543 </dt>
544 <dd>
546 The object name (aka SHA-1).
547 For a non-ambiguous abbreviation of the object name append <tt>:short</tt>.
548 </p>
549 </dd>
550 <dt class="hdlist1">
551 upstream
552 </dt>
553 <dd>
555 The name of a local ref which can be considered &#8220;upstream&#8221;
556 from the displayed ref. Respects <tt>:short</tt> in the same way as
557 <tt>refname</tt> above.
558 </p>
559 </dd>
560 </dl></div>
561 <div class="paragraph"><p>In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header
562 field names (<tt>tree</tt>, <tt>parent</tt>, <tt>object</tt>, <tt>type</tt>, and <tt>tag</tt>) can
563 be used to specify the value in the header field.</p></div>
564 <div class="paragraph"><p>Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (<tt>author</tt>,
565 <tt>committer</tt>, and <tt>tagger</tt>) can be suffixed with <tt>name</tt>, <tt>email</tt>,
566 and <tt>date</tt> to extract the named component.</p></div>
567 <div class="paragraph"><p>The first line of the message in a commit and tag object is
568 <tt>subject</tt>, the remaining lines are <tt>body</tt>. The whole message
569 is <tt>contents</tt>.</p></div>
570 <div class="paragraph"><p>For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric
571 order (<tt>objectsize</tt>, <tt>authordate</tt>, <tt>committerdate</tt>, <tt>taggerdate</tt>).
572 All other fields are used to sort in their byte-value order.</p></div>
573 <div class="paragraph"><p>In any case, a field name that refers to a field inapplicable to
574 the object referred by the ref does not cause an error. It
575 returns an empty string instead.</p></div>
576 <div class="paragraph"><p>As a special case for the date-type fields, you may specify a format for
577 the date by adding one of <tt>:default</tt>, <tt>:relative</tt>, <tt>:short</tt>, <tt>:local</tt>,
578 <tt>:iso8601</tt> or <tt>:rfc2822</tt> to the end of the fieldname; e.g.
579 <tt>%(taggerdate:relative)</tt>.</p></div>
580 </div>
581 <h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES</h2>
582 <div class="sectionbody">
583 <div class="paragraph"><p>An example directly producing formatted text. Show the most recent
584 3 tagged commits:</p></div>
585 <div class="listingblock">
586 <div class="content">
587 <pre><tt>#!/bin/sh
589 git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-*authordate' \
590 --format='From: %(*authorname) %(*authoremail)
591 Subject: %(*subject)
592 Date: %(*authordate)
593 Ref: %(*refname)
595 %(*body)
596 ' 'refs/tags'</tt></pre>
597 </div></div>
598 <div class="paragraph"><p>A simple example showing the use of shell eval on the output,
599 demonstrating the use of --shell. List the prefixes of all heads:</p></div>
600 <div class="listingblock">
601 <div class="content">
602 <pre><tt>#!/bin/sh
604 git for-each-ref --shell --format="ref=%(refname)" refs/heads | \
605 while read entry
607 eval "$entry"
608 echo `dirname $ref`
609 done</tt></pre>
610 </div></div>
611 <div class="paragraph"><p>A bit more elaborate report on tags, demonstrating that the format
612 may be an entire script:</p></div>
613 <div class="listingblock">
614 <div class="content">
615 <pre><tt>#!/bin/sh
617 fmt='
618 r=%(refname)
619 t=%(*objecttype)
620 T=${r#refs/tags/}
622 o=%(*objectname)
623 n=%(*authorname)
624 e=%(*authoremail)
625 s=%(*subject)
626 d=%(*authordate)
627 b=%(*body)
629 kind=Tag
630 if test "z$t" = z
631 then
632 # could be a lightweight tag
633 t=%(objecttype)
634 kind="Lightweight tag"
635 o=%(objectname)
636 n=%(authorname)
637 e=%(authoremail)
638 s=%(subject)
639 d=%(authordate)
640 b=%(body)
642 echo "$kind $T points at a $t object $o"
643 if test "z$t" = zcommit
644 then
645 echo "The commit was authored by $n $e
646 at $d, and titled
650 Its message reads as:
652 echo "$b" | sed -e "s/^/ /"
653 echo
657 eval=`git for-each-ref --shell --format="$fmt" \
658 --sort='*objecttype' \
659 --sort=-taggerdate \
660 refs/tags`
661 eval "$eval"</tt></pre>
662 </div></div>
663 </div>
664 <h2 id="_author">Author</h2>
665 <div class="sectionbody">
666 <div class="paragraph"><p>Written by Junio C Hamano &lt;<a href="mailto:gitster@pobox.com">gitster@pobox.com</a>&gt;.</p></div>
667 </div>
668 <h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2>
669 <div class="sectionbody">
670 <div class="paragraph"><p>Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list &lt;<a href="mailto:git@vger.kernel.org">git@vger.kernel.org</a>&gt;.</p></div>
671 </div>
672 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
673 <div class="sectionbody">
674 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
675 </div>
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