1git-show-branch(1) 2================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-show-branch - Show branches and their commits 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'git-show-branch' [--all] [--remotes] [--topo-order] [--current] 12 [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] 13 [--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics] [<rev> | <glob>]... 14'git-show-branch' (-g|--reflog)[=<n>[,<base>]] [--list] [<ref>] 15 16DESCRIPTION 17----------- 18 19Shows the commit ancestry graph starting from the commits named 20with <rev>s or <globs>s (or all refs under $GIT_DIR/refs/heads 21and/or $GIT_DIR/refs/tags) semi-visually. 22 23It cannot show more than 29 branches and commits at a time. 24 25It uses `showbranch.default` multi-valued configuration items if 26no <rev> nor <glob> is given on the command line. 27 28 29OPTIONS 30------- 31<rev>:: 32 Arbitrary extended SHA1 expression (see `git-rev-parse`) 33 that typically names a branch HEAD or a tag. 34 35<glob>:: 36 A glob pattern that matches branch or tag names under 37 $GIT_DIR/refs. For example, if you have many topic 38 branches under $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/topic, giving 39 `topic/*` would show all of them. 40 41-r|--remotes:: 42 Show the remote-tracking branches. 43 44-a|--all:: 45 Show both remote-tracking branches and local branches. 46 47--current:: 48 With this option, the command includes the current 49 branch to the list of revs to be shown when it is not 50 given on the command line. 51 52--topo-order:: 53 By default, the branches and their commits are shown in 54 reverse chronological order. This option makes them 55 appear in topological order (i.e., descendant commits 56 are shown before their parents). 57 58--sparse:: 59 By default, the output omits merges that are reachable 60 from only one tip being shown. This option makes them 61 visible. 62 63--more=<n>:: 64 Usually the command stops output upon showing the commit 65 that is the common ancestor of all the branches. This 66 flag tells the command to go <n> more common commits 67 beyond that. When <n> is negative, display only the 68 <reference>s given, without showing the commit ancestry 69 tree. 70 71--list:: 72 Synonym to `--more=-1` 73 74--merge-base:: 75 Instead of showing the commit list, just act like the 76 'git-merge-base -a' command, except that it can accept 77 more than two heads. 78 79--independent:: 80 Among the <reference>s given, display only the ones that 81 cannot be reached from any other <reference>. 82 83--no-name:: 84 Do not show naming strings for each commit. 85 86--sha1-name:: 87 Instead of naming the commits using the path to reach 88 them from heads (e.g. "master~2" to mean the grandparent 89 of "master"), name them with the unique prefix of their 90 object names. 91 92--topics:: 93 Shows only commits that are NOT on the first branch given. 94 This helps track topic branches by hiding any commit that 95 is already in the main line of development. When given 96 "git show-branch --topics master topic1 topic2", this 97 will show the revisions given by "git rev-list {caret}master 98 topic1 topic2" 99 100--reflog[=<n>[,<base>]] [<ref>]:: 101 Shows <n> most recent ref-log entries for the given 102 ref. If <base> is given, <n> entries going back from 103 that entry. <base> can be specified as count or date. 104 `-g` can be used as a short-hand for this option. When 105 no explicit <ref> parameter is given, it defaults to the 106 current branch (or `HEAD` if it is detached). 107 108Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options 109are mutually exclusive. 110 111 112OUTPUT 113------ 114Given N <references>, the first N lines are the one-line 115description from their commit message. The branch head that is 116pointed at by $GIT_DIR/HEAD is prefixed with an asterisk `*` 117character while other heads are prefixed with a `!` character. 118 119Following these N lines, one-line log for each commit is 120displayed, indented N places. If a commit is on the I-th 121branch, the I-th indentation character shows a `+` sign; 122otherwise it shows a space. Merge commits are denoted by 123a `-` sign. Each commit shows a short name that 124can be used as an extended SHA1 to name that commit. 125 126The following example shows three branches, "master", "fixes" 127and "mhf": 128 129------------------------------------------------ 130$ git show-branch master fixes mhf 131* [master] Add 'git show-branch'. 132 ! [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset" 133 ! [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching. 134--- 135 + [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching. 136 + [mhf~1] Use git-octopus when pulling more than one heads. 137 + [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset" 138 + [mhf~2] "git fetch --force". 139 + [mhf~3] Use .git/remote/origin, not .git/branches/origin. 140 + [mhf~4] Make "git pull" and "git fetch" default to origin 141 + [mhf~5] Infamous 'octopus merge' 142 + [mhf~6] Retire git-parse-remote. 143 + [mhf~7] Multi-head fetch. 144 + [mhf~8] Start adding the $GIT_DIR/remotes/ support. 145*++ [master] Add 'git show-branch'. 146------------------------------------------------ 147 148These three branches all forked from a common commit, [master], 149whose commit message is "Add 'git show-branch'. "fixes" branch 150adds one commit 'Introduce "reset type"'. "mhf" branch has many 151other commits. The current branch is "master". 152 153 154EXAMPLE 155------- 156 157If you keep your primary branches immediately under 158`$GIT_DIR/refs/heads`, and topic branches in subdirectories of 159it, having the following in the configuration file may help: 160 161------------ 162[showbranch] 163 default = --topo-order 164 default = heads/* 165 166------------ 167 168With this, `git show-branch` without extra parameters would show 169only the primary branches. In addition, if you happen to be on 170your topic branch, it is shown as well. 171 172------------ 173$ git show-branch --reflog='10,1 hour ago' --list master 174------------ 175 176shows 10 reflog entries going back from the tip as of 1 hour ago. 177Without `--list`, the output also shows how these tips are 178topologically related with each other. 179 180 181Author 182------ 183Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 184 185 186Documentation 187-------------- 188Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 189 190 191GIT 192--- 193Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite