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1 | git-rev-parse(1) |
2 | ================ | |
3 | ||
4 | NAME | |
5 | ---- | |
7bd7f280 | 6 | git-rev-parse - Pick out and massage parameters |
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7 | |
8 | ||
9 | SYNOPSIS | |
10 | -------- | |
b1889c36 | 11 | 'git rev-parse' [ --option ] <args>... |
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12 | |
13 | DESCRIPTION | |
14 | ----------- | |
5077fa9c | 15 | |
abda1ef5 | 16 | Many git porcelainish commands take mixture of flags |
5077fa9c | 17 | (i.e. parameters that begin with a dash '-') and parameters |
ba020ef5 | 18 | meant for the underlying 'git-rev-list' command they use internally |
483bc4f0 | 19 | and flags and parameters for the other commands they use |
ba020ef5 | 20 | downstream of 'git-rev-list'. This command is used to |
5077fa9c | 21 | distinguish between them. |
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22 | |
23 | ||
24 | OPTIONS | |
25 | ------- | |
21d47835 | 26 | --parseopt:: |
ba020ef5 | 27 | Use 'git-rev-parse' in option parsing mode (see PARSEOPT section below). |
21d47835 | 28 | |
2163e3f7 | 29 | --keep-dashdash:: |
21d47835 PH |
30 | Only meaningful in `--parseopt` mode. Tells the option parser to echo |
31 | out the first `--` met instead of skipping it. | |
32 | ||
50325377 CC |
33 | --sq-quote:: |
34 | Use 'git-rev-parse' in shell quoting mode (see SQ-QUOTE | |
35 | section below). In contrast to the `--sq` option below, this | |
36 | mode does only quoting. Nothing else is done to command input. | |
37 | ||
5077fa9c JH |
38 | --revs-only:: |
39 | Do not output flags and parameters not meant for | |
ba020ef5 | 40 | 'git-rev-list' command. |
5077fa9c JH |
41 | |
42 | --no-revs:: | |
43 | Do not output flags and parameters meant for | |
ba020ef5 | 44 | 'git-rev-list' command. |
5077fa9c JH |
45 | |
46 | --flags:: | |
47 | Do not output non-flag parameters. | |
48 | ||
49 | --no-flags:: | |
50 | Do not output flag parameters. | |
51 | ||
52 | --default <arg>:: | |
53 | If there is no parameter given by the user, use `<arg>` | |
54 | instead. | |
55 | ||
56 | --verify:: | |
57 | The parameter given must be usable as a single, valid | |
58 | object name. Otherwise barf and abort. | |
59 | ||
3240240f SB |
60 | -q:: |
61 | --quiet:: | |
b1b35969 CC |
62 | Only meaningful in `--verify` mode. Do not output an error |
63 | message if the first argument is not a valid object name; | |
64 | instead exit with non-zero status silently. | |
65 | ||
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66 | --sq:: |
67 | Usually the output is made one line per flag and | |
68 | parameter. This option makes output a single line, | |
69 | properly quoted for consumption by shell. Useful when | |
70 | you expect your parameter to contain whitespaces and | |
71 | newlines (e.g. when using pickaxe `-S` with | |
50325377 CC |
72 | 'git-diff-\*'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option, |
73 | the command input is still interpreted as usual. | |
5077fa9c JH |
74 | |
75 | --not:: | |
babfaba2 JF |
76 | When showing object names, prefix them with '{caret}' and |
77 | strip '{caret}' prefix from the object names that already have | |
5077fa9c JH |
78 | one. |
79 | ||
80 | --symbolic:: | |
81 | Usually the object names are output in SHA1 form (with | |
babfaba2 | 82 | possible '{caret}' prefix); this option makes them output in a |
5077fa9c JH |
83 | form as close to the original input as possible. |
84 | ||
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85 | --symbolic-full-name:: |
86 | This is similar to \--symbolic, but it omits input that | |
87 | are not refs (i.e. branch or tag names; or more | |
88 | explicitly disambiguating "heads/master" form, when you | |
89 | want to name the "master" branch when there is an | |
90 | unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full | |
91 | refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master"). | |
5077fa9c | 92 | |
a45d3469 BW |
93 | --abbrev-ref[={strict|loose}]:: |
94 | A non-ambiguous short name of the objects name. | |
95 | The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict | |
96 | abbreviation mode. | |
97 | ||
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98 | --all:: |
99 | Show all refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs`. | |
100 | ||
a62be77f SE |
101 | --branches:: |
102 | Show branch refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads`. | |
103 | ||
104 | --tags:: | |
105 | Show tag refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags`. | |
106 | ||
107 | --remotes:: | |
108 | Show tag refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes`. | |
109 | ||
5077fa9c | 110 | --show-prefix:: |
5f94c730 | 111 | When the command is invoked from a subdirectory, show the |
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112 | path of the current directory relative to the top-level |
113 | directory. | |
7fc9d69f | 114 | |
5f94c730 JH |
115 | --show-cdup:: |
116 | When the command is invoked from a subdirectory, show the | |
117 | path of the top-level directory relative to the current | |
118 | directory (typically a sequence of "../", or an empty string). | |
119 | ||
735d80b3 JF |
120 | --git-dir:: |
121 | Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined else show the path to the .git directory. | |
122 | ||
c9bf7be2 | 123 | --is-inside-git-dir:: |
4faac246 ML |
124 | When the current working directory is below the repository |
125 | directory print "true", otherwise "false". | |
126 | ||
892c41b9 ML |
127 | --is-inside-work-tree:: |
128 | When the current working directory is inside the work tree of the | |
129 | repository print "true", otherwise "false". | |
130 | ||
493c774e ML |
131 | --is-bare-repository:: |
132 | When the repository is bare print "true", otherwise "false". | |
c9bf7be2 | 133 | |
3240240f SB |
134 | --short:: |
135 | --short=number:: | |
735d80b3 | 136 | Instead of outputting the full SHA1 values of object names try to |
abda1ef5 | 137 | abbreviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified |
735d80b3 JF |
138 | 7 is used. The minimum length is 4. |
139 | ||
3240240f SB |
140 | --since=datestring:: |
141 | --after=datestring:: | |
483bc4f0 | 142 | Parse the date string, and output the corresponding |
ba020ef5 | 143 | --max-age= parameter for 'git-rev-list'. |
a3114b34 | 144 | |
3240240f SB |
145 | --until=datestring:: |
146 | --before=datestring:: | |
483bc4f0 | 147 | Parse the date string, and output the corresponding |
ba020ef5 | 148 | --min-age= parameter for 'git-rev-list'. |
a3114b34 | 149 | |
7fc9d69f | 150 | <args>...:: |
5077fa9c | 151 | Flags and parameters to be parsed. |
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152 | |
153 | ||
3a45f625 JH |
154 | SPECIFYING REVISIONS |
155 | -------------------- | |
156 | ||
622ef9df JH |
157 | A revision parameter typically, but not necessarily, names a |
158 | commit object. They use what is called an 'extended SHA1' | |
6b09c788 NTND |
159 | syntax. Here are various ways to spell object names. The |
160 | ones listed near the end of this list are to name trees and | |
161 | blobs contained in a commit. | |
3a45f625 JH |
162 | |
163 | * The full SHA1 object name (40-byte hexadecimal string), or | |
164 | a substring of such that is unique within the repository. | |
165 | E.g. dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735 and dae86e both | |
166 | name the same commit object if there are no other object in | |
167 | your repository whose object name starts with dae86e. | |
168 | ||
81b237d5 CEB |
169 | * An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, optionally |
170 | followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a | |
171 | `g`, and an abbreviated object name. | |
6b09c788 | 172 | |
3a45f625 JH |
173 | * A symbolic ref name. E.g. 'master' typically means the commit |
174 | object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master. If you | |
175 | happen to have both heads/master and tags/master, you can | |
72e9340c | 176 | explicitly say 'heads/master' to tell git which one you mean. |
0ac30568 JH |
177 | When ambiguous, a `<name>` is disambiguated by taking the |
178 | first match in the following rules: | |
3a45f625 | 179 | |
0ac30568 | 180 | . if `$GIT_DIR/<name>` exists, that is what you mean (this is usually |
fd11ae0b | 181 | useful only for `HEAD`, `FETCH_HEAD`, `ORIG_HEAD` and `MERGE_HEAD`); |
0ac30568 JH |
182 | |
183 | . otherwise, `$GIT_DIR/refs/<name>` if exists; | |
184 | ||
185 | . otherwise, `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags/<name>` if exists; | |
186 | ||
187 | . otherwise, `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/<name>` if exists; | |
188 | ||
189 | . otherwise, `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/<name>` if exists; | |
190 | ||
191 | . otherwise, `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD` if exists. | |
fd11ae0b JH |
192 | + |
193 | HEAD names the commit your changes in the working tree is based on. | |
194 | FETCH_HEAD records the branch you fetched from a remote repository | |
195 | with your last 'git-fetch' invocation. | |
196 | ORIG_HEAD is created by commands that moves your HEAD in a drastic | |
197 | way, to record the position of the HEAD before their operation, so that | |
198 | you can change the tip of the branch back to the state before you ran | |
199 | them easily. | |
200 | MERGE_HEAD records the commit(s) you are merging into your branch | |
201 | when you run 'git-merge'. | |
0ac30568 JH |
202 | |
203 | * A ref followed by the suffix '@' with a date specification | |
204 | enclosed in a brace | |
cce91a2c SP |
205 | pair (e.g. '\{yesterday\}', '\{1 month 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour 1 |
206 | second ago\}' or '\{1979-02-26 18:30:00\}') to specify the value | |
207 | of the ref at a prior point in time. This suffix may only be | |
208 | used immediately following a ref name and the ref must have an | |
a0d2ceb2 JK |
209 | existing log ($GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>). Note that this looks up the state |
210 | of your *local* ref at a given time; e.g., what was in your local | |
211 | `master` branch last week. If you want to look at commits made during | |
212 | certain times, see `--since` and `--until`. | |
d556fae2 | 213 | |
ee53aff4 SP |
214 | * A ref followed by the suffix '@' with an ordinal specification |
215 | enclosed in a brace pair (e.g. '\{1\}', '\{15\}') to specify | |
216 | the n-th prior value of that ref. For example 'master@\{1\}' | |
217 | is the immediate prior value of 'master' while 'master@\{5\}' | |
218 | is the 5th prior value of 'master'. This suffix may only be used | |
219 | immediately following a ref name and the ref must have an existing | |
220 | log ($GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>). | |
221 | ||
1e5db307 JS |
222 | * You can use the '@' construct with an empty ref part to get at a |
223 | reflog of the current branch. For example, if you are on the | |
224 | branch 'blabla', then '@\{1\}' means the same as 'blabla@\{1\}'. | |
225 | ||
d18ba221 TR |
226 | * The special construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch checked out |
227 | before the current one. | |
228 | ||
babfaba2 JF |
229 | * A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of |
230 | that commit object. '{caret}<n>' means the <n>th parent (i.e. | |
231 | 'rev{caret}' | |
232 | is equivalent to 'rev{caret}1'). As a special rule, | |
233 | 'rev{caret}0' means the commit itself and is used when 'rev' is the | |
3a45f625 JH |
234 | object name of a tag object that refers to a commit object. |
235 | ||
54bd2558 | 236 | * A suffix '{tilde}<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit |
3a45f625 JH |
237 | object that is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named |
238 | commit object, following only the first parent. I.e. rev~3 is | |
0ac30568 JH |
239 | equivalent to rev{caret}{caret}{caret} which is equivalent to |
240 | rev{caret}1{caret}1{caret}1. See below for a illustration of | |
241 | the usage of this form. | |
3a45f625 | 242 | |
622ef9df JH |
243 | * A suffix '{caret}' followed by an object type name enclosed in |
244 | brace pair (e.g. `v0.99.8{caret}\{commit\}`) means the object | |
245 | could be a tag, and dereference the tag recursively until an | |
246 | object of that type is found or the object cannot be | |
247 | dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf). `rev{caret}0` | |
248 | introduced earlier is a short-hand for `rev{caret}\{commit\}`. | |
249 | ||
250 | * A suffix '{caret}' followed by an empty brace pair | |
251 | (e.g. `v0.99.8{caret}\{\}`) means the object could be a tag, | |
252 | and dereference the tag recursively until a non-tag object is | |
253 | found. | |
254 | ||
28a4d940 JS |
255 | * A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text: this names |
256 | a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text. | |
257 | This name returns the youngest matching commit which is | |
258 | reachable from any ref. If the commit message starts with a | |
259 | '!', you have to repeat that; the special sequence ':/!', | |
260 | followed by something else than '!' is reserved for now. | |
261 | ||
6b09c788 NTND |
262 | * A suffix ':' followed by a path; this names the blob or tree |
263 | at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part | |
264 | before the colon. | |
265 | ||
266 | * A colon, optionally followed by a stage number (0 to 3) and a | |
267 | colon, followed by a path; this names a blob object in the | |
268 | index at the given path. Missing stage number (and the colon | |
a5d86f74 | 269 | that follows it) names a stage 0 entry. During a merge, stage |
257a84d9 SG |
270 | 1 is the common ancestor, stage 2 is the target branch's version |
271 | (typically the current branch), and stage 3 is the version from | |
272 | the branch being merged. | |
6b09c788 | 273 | |
da101b82 MV |
274 | Here is an illustration, by Jon Loeliger. Both commit nodes B |
275 | and C are parents of commit node A. Parent commits are ordered | |
2be8fd08 JH |
276 | left-to-right. |
277 | ||
df2740b0 MB |
278 | ........................................ |
279 | G H I J | |
280 | \ / \ / | |
281 | D E F | |
282 | \ | / \ | |
283 | \ | / | | |
284 | \|/ | | |
285 | B C | |
286 | \ / | |
287 | \ / | |
288 | A | |
289 | ........................................ | |
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290 | |
291 | A = = A^0 | |
292 | B = A^ = A^1 = A~1 | |
293 | C = A^2 = A^2 | |
294 | D = A^^ = A^1^1 = A~2 | |
295 | E = B^2 = A^^2 | |
296 | F = B^3 = A^^3 | |
297 | G = A^^^ = A^1^1^1 = A~3 | |
298 | H = D^2 = B^^2 = A^^^2 = A~2^2 | |
299 | I = F^ = B^3^ = A^^3^ | |
300 | J = F^2 = B^3^2 = A^^3^2 | |
301 | ||
3a45f625 | 302 | |
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303 | SPECIFYING RANGES |
304 | ----------------- | |
305 | ||
ba020ef5 | 306 | History traversing commands such as 'git-log' operate on a set |
be4c7014 JH |
307 | of commits, not just a single commit. To these commands, |
308 | specifying a single revision with the notation described in the | |
309 | previous section means the set of commits reachable from that | |
310 | commit, following the commit ancestry chain. | |
311 | ||
312 | To exclude commits reachable from a commit, a prefix `{caret}` | |
dcb11263 | 313 | notation is used. E.g. `{caret}r1 r2` means commits reachable |
be4c7014 JH |
314 | from `r2` but exclude the ones reachable from `r1`. |
315 | ||
316 | This set operation appears so often that there is a shorthand | |
fd11ae0b JH |
317 | for it. When you have two commits `r1` and `r2` (named according |
318 | to the syntax explained in SPECIFYING REVISIONS above), you can ask | |
319 | for commits that are reachable from r2 excluding those that are reachable | |
dcb11263 | 320 | from r1 by `{caret}r1 r2` and it can be written as `r1..r2`. |
be4c7014 | 321 | |
dcb11263 | 322 | A similar notation `r1\...r2` is called symmetric difference |
be4c7014 | 323 | of `r1` and `r2` and is defined as |
dcb11263 | 324 | `r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)`. |
e18ee576 | 325 | It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of |
be4c7014 JH |
326 | `r1` or `r2` but not from both. |
327 | ||
62476c8e | 328 | Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit |
faf466ff | 329 | and its parent commits exist. The `r1{caret}@` notation means all |
62476c8e | 330 | parents of `r1`. `r1{caret}!` includes commit `r1` but excludes |
faf466ff | 331 | all of its parents. |
62476c8e | 332 | |
a5d86f74 | 333 | Here are a handful of examples: |
be4c7014 | 334 | |
c2c6d930 GP |
335 | D G H D |
336 | D F G H I J D F | |
337 | ^G D H D | |
338 | ^D B E I J F B | |
339 | B...C G H D E B C | |
340 | ^D B C E I J F B C | |
341 | C^@ I J F | |
342 | F^! D G H D F | |
be4c7014 | 343 | |
21d47835 PH |
344 | PARSEOPT |
345 | -------- | |
346 | ||
ba020ef5 | 347 | In `--parseopt` mode, 'git-rev-parse' helps massaging options to bring to shell |
21d47835 PH |
348 | scripts the same facilities C builtins have. It works as an option normalizer |
349 | (e.g. splits single switches aggregate values), a bit like `getopt(1)` does. | |
350 | ||
351 | It takes on the standard input the specification of the options to parse and | |
352 | understand, and echoes on the standard output a line suitable for `sh(1)` `eval` | |
353 | to replace the arguments with normalized ones. In case of error, it outputs | |
354 | usage on the standard error stream, and exits with code 129. | |
355 | ||
356 | Input Format | |
357 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
358 | ||
ba020ef5 | 359 | 'git-rev-parse --parseopt' input format is fully text based. It has two parts, |
21d47835 PH |
360 | separated by a line that contains only `--`. The lines before the separator |
361 | (should be more than one) are used for the usage. | |
362 | The lines after the separator describe the options. | |
363 | ||
364 | Each line of options has this format: | |
365 | ||
366 | ------------ | |
ff962a3f | 367 | <opt_spec><flags>* SP+ help LF |
21d47835 PH |
368 | ------------ |
369 | ||
370 | `<opt_spec>`:: | |
371 | its format is the short option character, then the long option name | |
372 | separated by a comma. Both parts are not required, though at least one | |
373 | is necessary. `h,help`, `dry-run` and `f` are all three correct | |
374 | `<opt_spec>`. | |
375 | ||
ff962a3f PH |
376 | `<flags>`:: |
377 | `<flags>` are of `*`, `=`, `?` or `!`. | |
378 | * Use `=` if the option takes an argument. | |
379 | ||
380 | * Use `?` to mean that the option is optional (though its use is discouraged). | |
381 | ||
382 | * Use `*` to mean that this option should not be listed in the usage | |
383 | generated for the `-h` argument. It's shown for `--help-all` as | |
a5af0e2c | 384 | documented in linkgit:gitcli[7]. |
ff962a3f PH |
385 | |
386 | * Use `!` to not make the corresponding negated long option available. | |
21d47835 PH |
387 | |
388 | The remainder of the line, after stripping the spaces, is used | |
389 | as the help associated to the option. | |
390 | ||
391 | Blank lines are ignored, and lines that don't match this specification are used | |
392 | as option group headers (start the line with a space to create such | |
393 | lines on purpose). | |
394 | ||
395 | Example | |
396 | ~~~~~~~ | |
397 | ||
398 | ------------ | |
399 | OPTS_SPEC="\ | |
400 | some-command [options] <args>... | |
401 | ||
402 | some-command does foo and bar! | |
403 | -- | |
404 | h,help show the help | |
405 | ||
406 | foo some nifty option --foo | |
407 | bar= some cool option --bar with an argument | |
408 | ||
409 | An option group Header | |
410 | C? option C with an optional argument" | |
411 | ||
b1889c36 | 412 | eval `echo "$OPTS_SPEC" | git rev-parse --parseopt -- "$@" || echo exit $?` |
21d47835 PH |
413 | ------------ |
414 | ||
50325377 CC |
415 | SQ-QUOTE |
416 | -------- | |
417 | ||
418 | In `--sq-quote` mode, 'git-rev-parse' echoes on the standard output a | |
419 | single line suitable for `sh(1)` `eval`. This line is made by | |
420 | normalizing the arguments following `--sq-quote`. Nothing other than | |
421 | quoting the arguments is done. | |
422 | ||
423 | If you want command input to still be interpreted as usual by | |
424 | 'git-rev-parse' before the output is shell quoted, see the `--sq` | |
425 | option. | |
426 | ||
427 | Example | |
428 | ~~~~~~~ | |
429 | ||
430 | ------------ | |
431 | $ cat >your-git-script.sh <<\EOF | |
432 | #!/bin/sh | |
433 | args=$(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@") # quote user-supplied arguments | |
434 | command="git frotz -n24 $args" # and use it inside a handcrafted | |
435 | # command line | |
436 | eval "$command" | |
437 | EOF | |
438 | ||
439 | $ sh your-git-script.sh "a b'c" | |
440 | ------------ | |
441 | ||
824b5dc2 CC |
442 | EXAMPLES |
443 | -------- | |
444 | ||
445 | * Print the object name of the current commit: | |
446 | + | |
447 | ------------ | |
448 | $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD | |
449 | ------------ | |
450 | ||
451 | * Print the commit object name from the revision in the $REV shell variable: | |
452 | + | |
453 | ------------ | |
454 | $ git rev-parse --verify $REV | |
455 | ------------ | |
456 | + | |
457 | This will error out if $REV is empty or not a valid revision. | |
458 | ||
459 | * Same as above: | |
460 | + | |
461 | ------------ | |
462 | $ git rev-parse --default master --verify $REV | |
463 | ------------ | |
464 | + | |
465 | but if $REV is empty, the commit object name from master will be printed. | |
466 | ||
21d47835 | 467 | |
7fc9d69f JH |
468 | Author |
469 | ------ | |
21d47835 | 470 | Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> . |
59eb68aa | 471 | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> |
7fc9d69f JH |
472 | |
473 | Documentation | |
474 | -------------- | |
475 | Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
476 | ||
477 | GIT | |
478 | --- | |
9e1f0a85 | 479 | Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |