1git-log(1) 2========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-log - Show commit logs 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git log' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[\--] <path>...] 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Shows the commit logs. 17 18The command takes options applicable to the `git rev-list` 19command to control what is shown and how, and options applicable to 20the `git diff-*` commands to control how the changes 21each commit introduces are shown. 22 23 24OPTIONS 25------- 26 27--follow:: 28 Continue listing the history of a file beyond renames 29 (works only for a single file). 30 31--no-decorate:: 32--decorate[=short|full|no]:: 33 Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown. If 'short' is 34 specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/', 'refs/tags/' and 35 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is specified, the 36 full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. The default option 37 is 'short'. 38 39--source:: 40 Print out the ref name given on the command line by which each 41 commit was reached. 42 43--use-mailmap:: 44 Use mailmap file to map author and committer names and email 45 addresses to canonical real names and email addresses. See 46 linkgit:git-shortlog[1]. 47 48--full-diff:: 49 Without this flag, `git log -p <path>...` shows commits that 50 touch the specified paths, and diffs about the same specified 51 paths. With this, the full diff is shown for commits that touch 52 the specified paths; this means that "<path>..." limits only 53 commits, and doesn't limit diff for those commits. 54+ 55Note that this affects all diff-based output types, e.g. those 56produced by `--stat`, etc. 57 58--log-size:: 59 Include a line ``log size <number>'' in the output for each commit, 60 where <number> is the length of that commit's message in bytes. 61 Intended to speed up tools that read log messages from `git log` 62 output by allowing them to allocate space in advance. 63 64-L <start>,<end>:<file>:: 65-L :<regex>:<file>:: 66 Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>" 67 (or the funcname regex <regex>) within the <file>. You may 68 not give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to 69 a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only 70 give zero or one positive revision arguments. 71 You can specify this option more than once. 72+ 73include::line-range-format.txt[] 74 75<revision range>:: 76 Show only commits in the specified revision range. When no 77 <revision range> is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the 78 whole history leading to the current commit). `origin..HEAD` 79 specifies all the commits reachable from the current commit 80 (i.e. `HEAD`), but not from `origin`. For a complete list of 81 ways to spell <revision range>, see the 'Specifying Ranges' 82 section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. 83 84[\--] <path>...:: 85 Show only commits that are enough to explain how the files 86 that match the specified paths came to be. See 'History 87 Simplification' below for details and other simplification 88 modes. 89+ 90Paths may need to be prefixed with ``\-- '' to separate them from 91options or the revision range, when confusion arises. 92 93include::rev-list-options.txt[] 94 95include::pretty-formats.txt[] 96 97COMMON DIFF OPTIONS 98------------------- 99 100:git-log: 1 101include::diff-options.txt[] 102 103include::diff-generate-patch.txt[] 104 105EXAMPLES 106-------- 107`git log --no-merges`:: 108 109 Show the whole commit history, but skip any merges 110 111`git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi`:: 112 113 Show all commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any file 114 in the `include/scsi` or `drivers/scsi` subdirectories 115 116`git log --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk`:: 117 118 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'. 119 The ``--'' is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named 120 'gitk' 121 122`git log --name-status release..test`:: 123 124 Show the commits that are in the "test" branch but not yet 125 in the "release" branch, along with the list of paths 126 each commit modifies. 127 128`git log --follow builtin/rev-list.c`:: 129 130 Shows the commits that changed `builtin/rev-list.c`, including 131 those commits that occurred before the file was given its 132 present name. 133 134`git log --branches --not --remotes=origin`:: 135 136 Shows all commits that are in any of local branches but not in 137 any of remote-tracking branches for 'origin' (what you have that 138 origin doesn't). 139 140`git log master --not --remotes=*/master`:: 141 142 Shows all commits that are in local master but not in any remote 143 repository master branches. 144 145`git log -p -m --first-parent`:: 146 147 Shows the history including change diffs, but only from the 148 ``main branch'' perspective, skipping commits that come from merged 149 branches, and showing full diffs of changes introduced by the merges. 150 This makes sense only when following a strict policy of merging all 151 topic branches when staying on a single integration branch. 152 153`git log -L '/int main/',/^}/:main.c`:: 154 155 Shows how the function `main()` in the file `main.c` evolved 156 over time. 157 158`git log -3`:: 159 160 Limits the number of commits to show to 3. 161 162DISCUSSION 163---------- 164 165include::i18n.txt[] 166 167CONFIGURATION 168------------- 169 170See linkgit:git-config[1] for core variables and linkgit:git-diff[1] 171for settings related to diff generation. 172 173format.pretty:: 174 Default for the `--format` option. (See 'Pretty Formats' above.) 175 Defaults to `medium`. 176 177i18n.logOutputEncoding:: 178 Encoding to use when displaying logs. (See 'Discussion' above.) 179 Defaults to the value of `i18n.commitEncoding` if set, and UTF-8 180 otherwise. 181 182log.date:: 183 Default format for human-readable dates. (Compare the 184 `--date` option.) Defaults to "default", which means to write 185 dates like `Sat May 8 19:35:34 2010 -0500`. 186 187log.showroot:: 188 If `false`, `git log` and related commands will not treat the 189 initial commit as a big creation event. Any root commits in 190 `git log -p` output would be shown without a diff attached. 191 The default is `true`. 192 193mailmap.*:: 194 See linkgit:git-shortlog[1]. 195 196notes.displayRef:: 197 Which refs, in addition to the default set by `core.notesRef` 198 or 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit 199 messages with the `log` family of commands. See 200 linkgit:git-notes[1]. 201+ 202May be an unabbreviated ref name or a glob and may be specified 203multiple times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist, 204but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored. 205+ 206This setting can be disabled by the `--no-notes` option, 207overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable, 208and overridden by the `--notes=<ref>` option. 209 210GIT 211--- 212Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite