6 git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
12 'git-rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ]
13 [ \--max-age=timestamp ]
14 [ \--min-age=timestamp ]
22 [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
23 [ \--pretty | \--header ]
25 <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ]
29 Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the
30 given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account. This is
31 useful to produce human-readable log output.
33 Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to stop at
34 that point. Their parents are implied. "git-rev-list foo bar {caret}baz" thus
35 means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but
38 A special notation <commit1>..<commit2> can be used as a
39 short-hand for {caret}<commit1> <commit2>.
41 Another special notation is <commit1>...<commit2> which is useful for
42 merges. The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference
43 between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent:
46 $ git-rev-list A B --not $(git-merge-base --all A B)
53 Print the contents of the commit changesets in human-readable form.
56 Print the contents of the commit in raw-format; each
57 record is separated with a NUL character.
60 Print the parents of the commit.
63 Print the object IDs of any object referenced by the listed commits.
64 'git-rev-list --objects foo ^bar' thus means "send me all object IDs
65 which I need to download if I have the commit object 'bar', but
69 Similar to `--objects`, but also print the IDs of
70 excluded commits prefixed with a `-` character. This is
71 used by `git-pack-objects` to build 'thin' pack, which
72 records objects in deltified form based on objects
73 contained in these excluded commits to reduce network
77 Only useful with `--objects`; print the object IDs that
81 Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway
82 between the included and excluded commits. Thus, if 'git-rev-list
83 --bisect foo {caret}bar {caret}baz' outputs 'midpoint', the output
84 of 'git-rev-list foo {caret}midpoint' and 'git-rev-list midpoint
85 {caret}bar {caret}baz' would be of roughly the same length.
87 which introduces a regression is thus reduced to a binary search:
88 repeatedly generate and test new 'midpoint's until the commit chain
92 Limit the number of commits output.
94 --max-age=timestamp, --min-age=timestamp::
95 Limit the commits output to specified time range.
98 When optional paths are given, the command outputs only
99 the commits that changes at least one of them, and also
100 ignores merges that do not touch the given paths. This
101 flag makes the command output all eligible commits
102 (still subject to count and age limitation), but apply
103 merge simplification nevertheless.
106 Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
109 Do not print commits with more than one parent.
112 Reverses the meaning of the '{caret}' prefix (or lack
113 thereof) for all following revision specifiers, up to
117 Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/` are
118 listed on the command line as <commit>.
121 By default, the commits are shown in reverse
122 chronological order. This option makes them appear in
123 topological order (i.e. descendant commits are shown
124 before their parents).
128 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
132 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
136 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite