1git-log(1) 2========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-log - Show commit logs 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git log' [<options>] [<since>..<until>] [[\--] <path>...] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Shows the commit logs. 16 17The command takes options applicable to the 'git rev-list' 18command to control what is shown and how, and options applicable to 19the 'git diff-*' commands to control how the changes 20each commit introduces are shown. 21 22 23OPTIONS 24------- 25 26-<n>:: 27 Limits the number of commits to show. 28 29<since>..<until>:: 30 Show only commits between the named two commits. When 31 either <since> or <until> is omitted, it defaults to 32 `HEAD`, i.e. the tip of the current branch. 33 For a more complete list of ways to spell <since> 34 and <until>, see linkgit:gitrevisions[1]. 35 36--follow:: 37 Continue listing the history of a file beyond renames 38 (works only for a single file). 39 40--no-decorate:: 41--decorate[=short|full|no]:: 42 Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown. If 'short' is 43 specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/', 'refs/tags/' and 44 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is specified, the 45 full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. The default option 46 is 'short'. 47 48--source:: 49 Print out the ref name given on the command line by which each 50 commit was reached. 51 52--full-diff:: 53 Without this flag, "git log -p <path>..." shows commits that 54 touch the specified paths, and diffs about the same specified 55 paths. With this, the full diff is shown for commits that touch 56 the specified paths; this means that "<path>..." limits only 57 commits, and doesn't limit diff for those commits. 58+ 59Note that this affects all diff-based output types, e.g. those 60produced by --stat etc. 61 62--log-size:: 63 Before the log message print out its size in bytes. Intended 64 mainly for porcelain tools consumption. If git is unable to 65 produce a valid value size is set to zero. 66 Note that only message is considered, if also a diff is shown 67 its size is not included. 68 69[\--] <path>...:: 70 Show only commits that affect any of the specified paths. To 71 prevent confusion with options and branch names, paths may need 72 to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from options or 73 refnames. 74 75Common diff options 76~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 77 78:git-log: 1 79include::diff-options.txt[] 80 81include::rev-list-options.txt[] 82 83include::pretty-formats.txt[] 84 85include::diff-generate-patch.txt[] 86 87Examples 88-------- 89git log --no-merges:: 90 91 Show the whole commit history, but skip any merges 92 93git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi:: 94 95 Show all commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any file 96 in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories 97 98git log --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk:: 99 100 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'. 101 The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named 102 'gitk' 103 104git log --name-status release..test:: 105 106 Show the commits that are in the "test" branch but not yet 107 in the "release" branch, along with the list of paths 108 each commit modifies. 109 110git log --follow builtin-rev-list.c:: 111 112 Shows the commits that changed builtin-rev-list.c, including 113 those commits that occurred before the file was given its 114 present name. 115 116git log --branches --not --remotes=origin:: 117 118 Shows all commits that are in any of local branches but not in 119 any of remote tracking branches for 'origin' (what you have that 120 origin doesn't). 121 122git log master --not --remotes=*/master:: 123 124 Shows all commits that are in local master but not in any remote 125 repository master branches. 126 127git log -p -m --first-parent:: 128 129 Shows the history including change diffs, but only from the 130 "main branch" perspective, skipping commits that come from merged 131 branches, and showing full diffs of changes introduced by the merges. 132 This makes sense only when following a strict policy of merging all 133 topic branches when staying on a single integration branch. 134 135 136Discussion 137---------- 138 139include::i18n.txt[] 140 141Configuration 142------------- 143 144See linkgit:git-config[1] for core variables and linkgit:git-diff[1] 145for settings related to diff generation. 146 147format.pretty:: 148 Default for the `--format` option. (See "PRETTY FORMATS" above.) 149 Defaults to "medium". 150 151i18n.logOutputEncoding:: 152 Encoding to use when displaying logs. (See "Discussion", above.) 153 Defaults to the value of `i18n.commitEncoding` if set, UTF-8 154 otherwise. 155 156log.date:: 157 Default format for human-readable dates. (Compare the 158 `--date` option.) Defaults to "default", which means to write 159 dates like `Sat May 8 19:35:34 2010 -0500`. 160 161log.showroot:: 162 If `false`, 'git log' and related commands will not treat the 163 initial commit as a big creation event. Any root commits in 164 `git log -p` output would be shown without a diff attached. 165 The default is `true`. 166 167mailmap.file:: 168 See linkgit:git-shortlog[1]. 169 170notes.displayRef:: 171 Which refs, in addition to the default set by `core.notesRef` 172 or 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit 173 messages with the 'log' family of commands. See 174 linkgit:git-notes[1]. 175+ 176May be an unabbreviated ref name or a glob and may be specified 177multiple times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist, 178but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored. 179+ 180This setting can be disabled by the `--no-standard-notes` option, 181overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable, 182and supplemented by the `--show-notes` option. 183 184Author 185------ 186Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 187 188Documentation 189-------------- 190Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 191 192GIT 193--- 194Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite