Documentation/git-rev-list.txt

   1 git-rev-list(1)
   2 ===============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 [verse]
  12 'git rev-list' [<options>] <commit>... [[--] <path>...]
  13
  14 DESCRIPTION
  15 -----------
  16
  17 List commits that are reachable by following the `parent` links from the
  18 given commit(s), but exclude commits that are reachable from the one(s)
  19 given with a '{caret}' in front of them.  The output is given in reverse
  20 chronological order by default.
  21
  22 You can think of this as a set operation.  Commits given on the command
  23 line form a set of commits that are reachable from any of them, and then
  24 commits reachable from any of the ones given with '{caret}' in front are
  25 subtracted from that set.  The remaining commits are what comes out in the
  26 command's output.  Various other options and paths parameters can be used
  27 to further limit the result.
  28
  29 Thus, the following command:
  30
  31 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  32         $ git rev-list foo bar ^baz
  33 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  34
  35 means "list all the commits which are reachable from 'foo' or 'bar', but
  36 not from 'baz'".
  37
  38 A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
  39 short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of
  40 the following may be used interchangeably:
  41
  42 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  43         $ git rev-list origin..HEAD
  44         $ git rev-list HEAD ^origin
  45 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  46
  47 Another special notation is "'<commit1>'...'<commit2>'" which is useful
  48 for merges.  The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference
  49 between the two operands.  The following two commands are equivalent:
  50
  51 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  52         $ git rev-list A B --not $(git merge-base --all A B)
  53         $ git rev-list A...B
  54 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  55
  56 'rev-list' is a very essential Git command, since it
  57 provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For
  58 this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be
  59 used by commands as different as 'git bisect' and
  60 'git repack'.
  61
  62 OPTIONS
  63 -------
  64
  65 :git-rev-list: 1
  66 include::rev-list-options.txt[]
  67
  68 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
  69
  70 GIT
  71 ---
  72 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite