6 git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
12 'git-rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ]
14 [ \--max-age=timestamp ]
15 [ \--min-age=timestamp ]
24 [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
25 [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
26 [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
27 [ \--pretty | \--header ]
30 <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ]
35 Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the
36 given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account. This is
37 useful to produce human-readable log output.
39 Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to
40 stop at that point. Their parents are implied. Thus the following
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44 $ git-rev-list foo bar ^baz
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47 means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but
50 A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
51 short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of
52 the following may be used interchangeably:
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55 $ git-rev-list origin..HEAD
56 $ git-rev-list HEAD ^origin
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59 Another special notation is "'<commit1>'...'<commit2>'" which is useful
60 for merges. The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference
61 between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent:
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64 $ git-rev-list A B --not $(git-merge-base --all A B)
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68 gitlink:git-rev-list[1] is a very essential git program, since it
69 provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For
70 this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be
71 used by commands as different as gitlink:git-bisect[1] and
72 gitlink:git-repack[1].
80 Using these options, gitlink:git-rev-list[1] will act similar to the
81 more specialized family of commit log tools: gitlink:git-log[1],
82 gitlink:git-show[1], and gitlink:git-whatchanged[1]
84 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
88 Show dates relative to the current time, e.g. "2 hours ago".
89 Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such
90 as when using "--pretty".
94 Print the contents of the commit in raw-format; each record is
95 separated with a NUL character.
99 Print the parents of the commit.
104 Below are listed options that control the formatting of diff output.
105 Some of them are specific to gitlink:git-rev-list[1], however other diff
106 options may be given. See gitlink:git-diff-files[1] for more options.
110 This flag changes the way a merge commit is displayed. It shows
111 the differences from each of the parents to the merge result
112 simultaneously instead of showing pairwise diff between a parent
113 and the result one at a time. Furthermore, it lists only files
114 which were modified from all parents.
118 This flag implies the '-c' options and further compresses the
119 patch output by omitting hunks that show differences from only
120 one parent, or show the same change from all but one parent for
125 Show recursive diffs.
129 Show the tree objects in the diff output. This implies '-r'.
134 Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the
135 special notations explained in the description, additional commit
136 limiting may be applied.
140 -n 'number', --max-count='number'::
142 Limit the number of commits output.
146 Skip 'number' commits before starting to show the commit output.
148 --since='date', --after='date'::
150 Show commits more recent than a specific date.
152 --until='date', --before='date'::
154 Show commits older than a specific date.
156 --max-age='timestamp', --min-age='timestamp'::
158 Limit the commits output to specified time range.
160 --author='pattern', --committer='pattern'::
162 Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
163 header lines that match the specified pattern.
167 Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
168 matches the specified pattern.
172 Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
176 Do not print commits with more than one parent.
180 Reverses the meaning of the '{caret}' prefix (or lack thereof)
181 for all following revision specifiers, up to the next '--not'.
185 Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/` are listed on the
186 command line as '<commit>'.
190 In addition to the '<commit>' listed on the command
191 line, read them from the standard input.
195 After a failed merge, show refs that touch files having a
196 conflict and don't exist on all heads to merge.
200 Output uninteresting commits at the boundary, which are usually
205 When optional paths are given, the default behaviour ('--dense') is to
206 only output commits that changes at least one of them, and also ignore
207 merges that do not touch the given paths.
209 Use the '--sparse' flag to makes the command output all eligible commits
210 (still subject to count and age limitation), but apply merge
211 simplification nevertheless.
215 Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway between
216 the included and excluded commits. Thus, if
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219 $ git-rev-list --bisect foo ^bar ^baz
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222 outputs 'midpoint', the output of the two commands
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225 $ git-rev-list foo ^midpoint
226 $ git-rev-list midpoint ^bar ^baz
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229 would be of roughly the same length. Finding the change which
230 introduces a regression is thus reduced to a binary search: repeatedly
231 generate and test new 'midpoint's until the commit chain is of length
239 By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order.
243 This option makes them appear in topological order (i.e.
244 descendant commits are shown before their parents).
248 This option is similar to '--topo-order' in the sense that no
249 parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things
250 are still ordered in the commit timestamp order.
255 These options are mostly targeted for packing of git repositories.
259 Print the object IDs of any object referenced by the listed
260 commits. 'git-rev-list --objects foo ^bar' thus means "send me
261 all object IDs which I need to download if I have the commit
262 object 'bar', but not 'foo'".
266 Similar to '--objects', but also print the IDs of excluded
267 commits prefixed with a "-" character. This is used by
268 gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] to build "thin" pack, which records
269 objects in deltified form based on objects contained in these
270 excluded commits to reduce network traffic.
274 Only useful with '--objects'; print the object IDs that are not
279 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
283 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca
284 and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
288 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite