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' [ --max-count=<number> ]
  13              [ --skip=<number> ]
  14              [ --max-age=<timestamp> ]
  15              [ --min-age=<timestamp> ]
  16              [ --sparse ]
  17              [ --merges ]
  18              [ --no-merges ]
  19              [ --min-parents=<number> ]
  20              [ --no-min-parents ]
  21              [ --max-parents=<number> ]
  22              [ --no-max-parents ]
  23              [ --first-parent ]
  24              [ --remove-empty ]
  25              [ --full-history ]
  26              [ --not ]
  27              [ --all ]
  28              [ --branches[=<pattern>] ]
  29              [ --tags[=<pattern>] ]
  30              [ --remotes[=<pattern>] ]
  31              [ --glob=<glob-pattern> ]
  32              [ --ignore-missing ]
  33              [ --stdin ]
  34              [ --quiet ]
  35              [ --topo-order ]
  36              [ --parents ]
  37              [ --timestamp ]
  38              [ --left-right ]
  39              [ --left-only ]
  40              [ --right-only ]
  41              [ --cherry-mark ]
  42              [ --cherry-pick ]
  43              [ --encoding=<encoding> ]
  44              [ --(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
  45              [ --regexp-ignore-case | -i ]
  46              [ --extended-regexp | -E ]
  47              [ --fixed-strings | -F ]
  48              [ --date=<format>]
  49              [ [ --objects | --objects-edge | --objects-edge-aggressive ]
  50                [ --unpacked ]
  51                [ --object-names | --no-object-names ]
  52                [ --filter=<filter-spec> [ --filter-print-omitted ] ] ]
  53              [ --missing=<missing-action> ]
  54              [ --pretty | --header ]
  55              [ --bisect ]
  56              [ --bisect-vars ]
  57              [ --bisect-all ]
  58              [ --merge ]
  59              [ --reverse ]
  60              [ --walk-reflogs ]
  61              [ --no-walk ] [ --do-walk ]
  62              [ --count ]
  63              [ --use-bitmap-index ]
  64              <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ]
  65
  66 DESCRIPTION
  67 -----------
  68
  69 List commits that are reachable by following the `parent` links from the
  70 given commit(s), but exclude commits that are reachable from the one(s)
  71 given with a '{caret}' in front of them.  The output is given in reverse
  72 chronological order by default.
  73
  74 You can think of this as a set operation.  Commits given on the command
  75 line form a set of commits that are reachable from any of them, and then
  76 commits reachable from any of the ones given with '{caret}' in front are
  77 subtracted from that set.  The remaining commits are what comes out in the
  78 command's output.  Various other options and paths parameters can be used
  79 to further limit the result.
  80
  81 Thus, the following command:
  82
  83 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  84         $ git rev-list foo bar ^baz
  85 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  86
  87 means "list all the commits which are reachable from 'foo' or 'bar', but
  88 not from 'baz'".
  89
  90 A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
  91 short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of
  92 the following may be used interchangeably:
  93
  94 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  95         $ git rev-list origin..HEAD
  96         $ git rev-list HEAD ^origin
  97 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  98
  99 Another special notation is "'<commit1>'...'<commit2>'" which is useful
 100 for merges.  The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference
 101 between the two operands.  The following two commands are equivalent:
 102
 103 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 104         $ git rev-list A B --not $(git merge-base --all A B)
 105         $ git rev-list A...B
 106 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 107
 108 'rev-list' is a very essential Git command, since it
 109 provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For
 110 this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be
 111 used by commands as different as 'git bisect' and
 112 'git repack'.
 113
 114 OPTIONS
 115 -------
 116
 117 :git-rev-list: 1
 118 include::rev-list-options.txt[]
 119
 120 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 121
 122 GIT
 123 ---
 124 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite