1git-for-each-ref(1) 2=================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-for-each-ref - Output information on each ref 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'git-for-each-ref' [--count=<count>]\* [--shell|--perl|--python|--tcl] [--sort=<key>]\* [--format=<format>] [<pattern>] 11 12DESCRIPTION 13----------- 14 15Iterate over all refs that match `<pattern>` and show them 16according to the given `<format>`, after sorting them according 17to the given set of `<key>`. If `<max>` is given, stop after 18showing that many refs. The interpolated values in `<format>` 19can optionally be quoted as string literals in the specified 20host language allowing their direct evaluation in that language. 21 22OPTIONS 23------- 24<count>:: 25 By default the command shows all refs that match 26 `<pattern>`. This option makes it stop after showing 27 that many refs. 28 29<key>:: 30 A field name to sort on. Prefix `-` to sort in 31 descending order of the value. When unspecified, 32 `refname` is used. More than one sort keys can be 33 given. 34 35<format>:: 36 A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from the 37 object pointed at by a ref being shown. If `fieldname` 38 is prefixed with an asterisk (`*`) and the ref points 39 at a tag object, the value for the field in the object 40 tag refers is used. When unspecified, defaults to 41 `%(objectname) SPC %(objecttype) TAB %(refname)`. 42 It also interpolates `%%` to `%`, and `%xx` where `xx` 43 are hex digits interpolates to character with hex code 44 `xx`; for example `%00` interpolates to `\0` (NUL), 45 `%09` to `\t` (TAB) and `%0a` to `\n` (LF). 46 47<pattern>:: 48 If given, the name of the ref is matched against this 49 using fnmatch(3). Refs that do not match the pattern 50 are not shown. 51 52--shell, --perl, --python, --tcl:: 53 If given, strings that substitute `%(fieldname)` 54 placeholders are quoted as string literals suitable for 55 the specified host language. This is meant to produce 56 a scriptlet that can directly be `eval`ed. 57 58 59FIELD NAMES 60----------- 61 62Various values from structured fields in referenced objects can 63be used to interpolate into the resulting output, or as sort 64keys. 65 66For all objects, the following names can be used: 67 68refname:: 69 The name of the ref (the part after $GIT_DIR/refs/). 70 71objecttype:: 72 The type of the object (`blob`, `tree`, `commit`, `tag`). 73 74objectsize:: 75 The size of the object (the same as `git-cat-file -s` reports). 76 77objectname:: 78 The object name (aka SHA-1). 79 80In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header 81field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can 82be used to specify the value in the header field. 83 84Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`, 85`committer`, and `tagger`) can be suffixed with `name`, `email`, 86and `date` to extract the named component. 87 88The first line of the message in a commit and tag object is 89`subject`, the remaining lines are `body`. The whole message 90is `contents`. 91 92For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric 93order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`). 94All other fields are used to sort in their byte-value order. 95 96In any case, a field name that refers to a field inapplicable to 97the object referred by the ref does not cause an error. It 98returns an empty string instead. 99 100 101EXAMPLES 102-------- 103 104An example directly producing formatted text. Show the most recent 1053 tagged commits:: 106 107------------ 108#!/bin/sh 109 110git-for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-*authordate' \ 111--format='From: %(*authorname) %(*authoremail) 112Subject: %(*subject) 113Date: %(*authordate) 114Ref: %(*refname) 115 116%(*body) 117' 'refs/tags' 118------------ 119 120 121A simple example showing the use of shell eval on the output, 122demonstrating the use of --shell. List the prefixes of all heads:: 123------------ 124#!/bin/sh 125 126git-for-each-ref --shell --format="ref=%(refname)" refs/heads | \ 127while read entry 128do 129 eval "$entry" 130 echo `dirname $ref` 131done 132------------ 133 134 135A bit more elaborate report on tags, demonstrating that the format 136may be an entire script:: 137------------ 138#!/bin/sh 139 140fmt=' 141 r=%(refname) 142 t=%(*objecttype) 143 T=${r#refs/tags/} 144 145 o=%(*objectname) 146 n=%(*authorname) 147 e=%(*authoremail) 148 s=%(*subject) 149 d=%(*authordate) 150 b=%(*body) 151 152 kind=Tag 153 if test "z$t" = z 154 then 155 # could be a lightweight tag 156 t=%(objecttype) 157 kind="Lightweight tag" 158 o=%(objectname) 159 n=%(authorname) 160 e=%(authoremail) 161 s=%(subject) 162 d=%(authordate) 163 b=%(body) 164 fi 165 echo "$kind $T points at a $t object $o" 166 if test "z$t" = zcommit 167 then 168 echo "The commit was authored by $n $e 169at $d, and titled 170 171 $s 172 173Its message reads as: 174" 175 echo "$b" | sed -e "s/^/ /" 176 echo 177 fi 178' 179 180eval=`git-for-each-ref --shell --format="$fmt" \ 181 --sort='*objecttype' \ 182 --sort=-taggerdate \ 183 refs/tags` 184eval "$eval" 185------------