1git-show-branch(1) 2================== 3v0.99.5, Aug 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-show-branch - Show branches and their commits. 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] <reference>...' 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Shows the head commits from the named <reference> (or all refs under 16$GIT_DIR/refs/heads), and displays concise list of commit logs 17to show their relationship semi-visually. 18 19OPTIONS 20------- 21<reference>:: 22 Name of the reference under $GIT_DIR/refs/. 23 24--all --heads --tags:: 25 Show all refs under $GIT_DIR/refs, $GIT_DIR/refs/heads, 26 and $GIT_DIR/refs/tags, respectively. 27 28--more=<n>:: 29 Usually the command stops output upon showing the commit 30 that is the common ancestor of all the branches. This 31 flag tells the command to go <n> more common commits 32 beyond that. When <n> is negative, display only the 33 <reference>s given, without showing the commit ancestry 34 tree. 35 36--list:: 37 Synomym to `--more=-1` 38 39--merge-base:: 40 Instead of showing the commit list, just act like the 41 'git-merge-base -a' command, except that it can accept 42 more than two heads. 43 44--independent:: 45 Among the <reference>s given, display only the ones that 46 cannot be reached from any other <reference>. 47 48Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options 49are mutually exclusive. 50 51 52OUTPUT 53------ 54Given N <references>, the first N lines are the one-line 55description from their commit message. The branch head that is 56pointed at by $GIT_DIR/HEAD is prefixed with an asterisk '*' 57character while other heads are prefixed with a '!' character. 58 59Following these N lines, one-line log for each commit is 60displayed, indented N places. If a commit is on the I-th 61branch, the I-th indentation character shows a '+' sign; 62otherwise it shows a space. Each commit shows a short name that 63can be used as an exended SHA1 to name that commit. 64 65The following example shows three branches, "master", "fixes" 66and "mhf": 67 68------------------------------------------------ 69$ git show-branch master fixes mhf 70! [master] Add 'git show-branch'. 71 ! [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset" 72 ! [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching. 73--- 74 + [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching. 75 + [mhf~1] Use git-octopus when pulling more than one heads. 76 + [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset" 77 + [mhf~2] "git fetch --force". 78 + [mhf~3] Use .git/remote/origin, not .git/branches/origin. 79 + [mhf~4] Make "git pull" and "git fetch" default to origin 80 + [mhf~5] Infamous 'octopus merge' 81 + [mhf~6] Retire git-parse-remote. 82 + [mhf~7] Multi-head fetch. 83 + [mhf~8] Start adding the $GIT_DIR/remotes/ support. 84+++ [master] Add 'git show-branch'. 85------------------------------------------------ 86 87These three branches all forked from a common commit, [master], 88whose commit message is "Add 'git show-branch'. "fixes" branch 89adds one commit 'Introduce "reset type"'. "mhf" branch has many 90other commits. 91 92When only one head is given, the output format changes slightly 93to conserve space. The '+' sign to show which commit is 94reachable from which head and the first N lines to show the list 95of heads being displayed are both meaningless so they are 96omitted. Also the label given to each commit does not repeat 97the name of the branch because it is obvious. 98 99------------------------------------------------ 100$ git show-branch --more=4 master 101[master] Add 'git show-branch'. 102[~1] Add a new extended SHA1 syntax <name>~<num> 103[~2] Fix "git-diff A B" 104[~3] git-ls-files: generalized pathspecs 105[~4] Make "git-ls-files" work in subdirectories 106------------------------------------------------ 107 108Author 109------ 110Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 111 112 113Documentation 114-------------- 115Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 116 117 118GIT 119--- 120Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite