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 405 <h1>
 406 git-show-branch(1) Manual Page
 407 </h1>
 408 <h2>NAME</h2>
 409 <div class="sectionbody">
 410 <p>git-show-branch -
 411    Show branches and their commits
 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 show-branch</em> [-a|--all] [-r|--remotes] [--topo-order | --date-order]
 419                 [--current] [--color[=&lt;when&gt;] | --no-color] [--sparse]
 420                 [--more=&lt;n&gt; | --list | --independent | --merge-base]
 421                 [--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics]
 422                 [(&lt;rev&gt; | &lt;glob&gt;)&#8230;]</div>
 423 <div class="verseblock-attribution">
 424 </div></div>
 425 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>git show-branch</em> (-g|--reflog)[=&lt;n&gt;[,&lt;base&gt;]] [--list] [&lt;ref&gt;]</p></div>
 426 </div>
 427 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 428 <div class="sectionbody">
 429 <div class="paragraph"><p>Shows the commit ancestry graph starting from the commits named
 430 with &lt;rev&gt;s or &lt;globs&gt;s (or all refs under refs/heads
 431 and/or refs/tags) semi-visually.</p></div>
 432 <div class="paragraph"><p>It cannot show more than 29 branches and commits at a time.</p></div>
 433 <div class="paragraph"><p>It uses <tt>showbranch.default</tt> multi-valued configuration items if
 434 no &lt;rev&gt; nor &lt;glob&gt; is given on the command line.</p></div>
 435 </div>
 436 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 437 <div class="sectionbody">
 438 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 439 <dt class="hdlist1">
 440 &lt;rev&gt;
 441 </dt>
 442 <dd>
 443 <p>
 444         Arbitrary extended SHA1 expression (see <a href="gitrevisions.html">gitrevisions(7)</a>)
 445         that typically names a branch head or a tag.
 446 </p>
 447 </dd>
 448 <dt class="hdlist1">
 449 &lt;glob&gt;
 450 </dt>
 451 <dd>
 452 <p>
 453         A glob pattern that matches branch or tag names under
 454         refs/.  For example, if you have many topic
 455         branches under refs/heads/topic, giving
 456         <tt>topic/*</tt> would show all of them.
 457 </p>
 458 </dd>
 459 <dt class="hdlist1">
 460 -r
 461 </dt>
 462 <dt class="hdlist1">
 463 --remotes
 464 </dt>
 465 <dd>
 466 <p>
 467         Show the remote-tracking branches.
 468 </p>
 469 </dd>
 470 <dt class="hdlist1">
 471 -a
 472 </dt>
 473 <dt class="hdlist1">
 474 --all
 475 </dt>
 476 <dd>
 477 <p>
 478         Show both remote-tracking branches and local branches.
 479 </p>
 480 </dd>
 481 <dt class="hdlist1">
 482 --current
 483 </dt>
 484 <dd>
 485 <p>
 486         With this option, the command includes the current
 487         branch to the list of revs to be shown when it is not
 488         given on the command line.
 489 </p>
 490 </dd>
 491 <dt class="hdlist1">
 492 --topo-order
 493 </dt>
 494 <dd>
 495 <p>
 496         By default, the branches and their commits are shown in
 497         reverse chronological order.  This option makes them
 498         appear in topological order (i.e., descendant commits
 499         are shown before their parents).
 500 </p>
 501 </dd>
 502 <dt class="hdlist1">
 503 --date-order
 504 </dt>
 505 <dd>
 506 <p>
 507         This option is similar to <em>--topo-order</em> in the sense that no
 508         parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise commits
 509         are ordered according to their commit date.
 510 </p>
 511 </dd>
 512 <dt class="hdlist1">
 513 --sparse
 514 </dt>
 515 <dd>
 516 <p>
 517         By default, the output omits merges that are reachable
 518         from only one tip being shown.  This option makes them
 519         visible.
 520 </p>
 521 </dd>
 522 <dt class="hdlist1">
 523 --more=&lt;n&gt;
 524 </dt>
 525 <dd>
 526 <p>
 527         Usually the command stops output upon showing the commit
 528         that is the common ancestor of all the branches.  This
 529         flag tells the command to go &lt;n&gt; more common commits
 530         beyond that.  When &lt;n&gt; is negative, display only the
 531         &lt;reference&gt;s given, without showing the commit ancestry
 532         tree.
 533 </p>
 534 </dd>
 535 <dt class="hdlist1">
 536 --list
 537 </dt>
 538 <dd>
 539 <p>
 540         Synonym to <tt>--more=-1</tt>
 541 </p>
 542 </dd>
 543 <dt class="hdlist1">
 544 --merge-base
 545 </dt>
 546 <dd>
 547 <p>
 548         Instead of showing the commit list, determine possible
 549         merge bases for the specified commits. All merge bases
 550         will be contained in all specified commits. This is
 551         different from how <a href="git-merge-base.html">git-merge-base(1)</a> handles
 552         the case of three or more commits.
 553 </p>
 554 </dd>
 555 <dt class="hdlist1">
 556 --independent
 557 </dt>
 558 <dd>
 559 <p>
 560         Among the &lt;reference&gt;s given, display only the ones that
 561         cannot be reached from any other &lt;reference&gt;.
 562 </p>
 563 </dd>
 564 <dt class="hdlist1">
 565 --no-name
 566 </dt>
 567 <dd>
 568 <p>
 569         Do not show naming strings for each commit.
 570 </p>
 571 </dd>
 572 <dt class="hdlist1">
 573 --sha1-name
 574 </dt>
 575 <dd>
 576 <p>
 577         Instead of naming the commits using the path to reach
 578         them from heads (e.g. "master~2" to mean the grandparent
 579         of "master"), name them with the unique prefix of their
 580         object names.
 581 </p>
 582 </dd>
 583 <dt class="hdlist1">
 584 --topics
 585 </dt>
 586 <dd>
 587 <p>
 588         Shows only commits that are NOT on the first branch given.
 589         This helps track topic branches by hiding any commit that
 590         is already in the main line of development.  When given
 591         "git show-branch --topics master topic1 topic2", this
 592         will show the revisions given by "git rev-list &#94;master
 593         topic1 topic2"
 594 </p>
 595 </dd>
 596 <dt class="hdlist1">
 597 -g
 598 </dt>
 599 <dt class="hdlist1">
 600 --reflog[=&lt;n&gt;[,&lt;base&gt;]] [&lt;ref&gt;]
 601 </dt>
 602 <dd>
 603 <p>
 604         Shows &lt;n&gt; most recent ref-log entries for the given
 605         ref.  If &lt;base&gt; is given, &lt;n&gt; entries going back from
 606         that entry.  &lt;base&gt; can be specified as count or date.
 607         When no explicit &lt;ref&gt; parameter is given, it defaults to the
 608         current branch (or <tt>HEAD</tt> if it is detached).
 609 </p>
 610 </dd>
 611 <dt class="hdlist1">
 612 --color[=&lt;when&gt;]
 613 </dt>
 614 <dd>
 615 <p>
 616         Color the status sign (one of these: <tt>*</tt> <tt>!</tt> <tt>+</tt> <tt>-</tt>) of each commit
 617         corresponding to the branch it&#8217;s in.
 618         The value must be always (the default), never, or auto.
 619 </p>
 620 </dd>
 621 <dt class="hdlist1">
 622 --no-color
 623 </dt>
 624 <dd>
 625 <p>
 626         Turn off colored output, even when the configuration file gives the
 627         default to color output.
 628         Same as <tt>--color=never</tt>.
 629 </p>
 630 </dd>
 631 </dl></div>
 632 <div class="paragraph"><p>Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options
 633 are mutually exclusive.</p></div>
 634 </div>
 635 <h2 id="_output">OUTPUT</h2>
 636 <div class="sectionbody">
 637 <div class="paragraph"><p>Given N &lt;references&gt;, the first N lines are the one-line
 638 description from their commit message.  The branch head that is
 639 pointed at by $GIT_DIR/HEAD is prefixed with an asterisk <tt>*</tt>
 640 character while other heads are prefixed with a <tt>!</tt> character.</p></div>
 641 <div class="paragraph"><p>Following these N lines, one-line log for each commit is
 642 displayed, indented N places.  If a commit is on the I-th
 643 branch, the I-th indentation character shows a <tt>+</tt> sign;
 644 otherwise it shows a space.  Merge commits are denoted by
 645 a <tt>-</tt> sign.  Each commit shows a short name that
 646 can be used as an extended SHA1 to name that commit.</p></div>
 647 <div class="paragraph"><p>The following example shows three branches, "master", "fixes"
 648 and "mhf":</p></div>
 649 <div class="listingblock">
 650 <div class="content">
 651 <pre><tt>$ git show-branch master fixes mhf
 652 * [master] Add 'git show-branch'.
 653  ! [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset"
 654   ! [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching.
 655 ---
 656   + [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching.
 657   + [mhf~1] Use git-octopus when pulling more than one heads.
 658  +  [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset"
 659   + [mhf~2] "git fetch --force".
 660   + [mhf~3] Use .git/remote/origin, not .git/branches/origin.
 661   + [mhf~4] Make "git pull" and "git fetch" default to origin
 662   + [mhf~5] Infamous 'octopus merge'
 663   + [mhf~6] Retire git-parse-remote.
 664   + [mhf~7] Multi-head fetch.
 665   + [mhf~8] Start adding the $GIT_DIR/remotes/ support.
 666 *++ [master] Add 'git show-branch'.</tt></pre>
 667 </div></div>
 668 <div class="paragraph"><p>These three branches all forked from a common commit, [master],
 669 whose commit message is "Add &#39;git show-branch&#39;".
 670 The "fixes" branch adds one commit "Introduce "reset type" flag to
 671 "git reset"". The "mhf" branch adds many other commits.
 672 The current branch is "master".</p></div>
 673 </div>
 674 <h2 id="_example">EXAMPLE</h2>
 675 <div class="sectionbody">
 676 <div class="paragraph"><p>If you keep your primary branches immediately under
 677 <tt>refs/heads</tt>, and topic branches in subdirectories of
 678 it, having the following in the configuration file may help:</p></div>
 679 <div class="listingblock">
 680 <div class="content">
 681 <pre><tt>[showbranch]
 682         default = --topo-order
 683         default = heads/*</tt></pre>
 684 </div></div>
 685 <div class="paragraph"><p>With this, <tt>git show-branch</tt> without extra parameters would show
 686 only the primary branches.  In addition, if you happen to be on
 687 your topic branch, it is shown as well.</p></div>
 688 <div class="listingblock">
 689 <div class="content">
 690 <pre><tt>$ git show-branch --reflog="10,1 hour ago" --list master</tt></pre>
 691 </div></div>
 692 <div class="paragraph"><p>shows 10 reflog entries going back from the tip as of 1 hour ago.
 693 Without <tt>--list</tt>, the output also shows how these tips are
 694 topologically related with each other.</p></div>
 695 </div>
 696 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 697 <div class="sectionbody">
 698 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 699 </div>
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