1git-show-branch(1) 2================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-show-branch - Show branches and their commits. 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'git-show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--topo-order] [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] [--no-name | --sha1-name] [<rev> | <glob>]...' 11 12DESCRIPTION 13----------- 14 15Shows the commit ancestry graph starting from the commits named 16with <rev>s or <globs>s (or all refs under $GIT_DIR/refs/heads 17and/or $GIT_DIR/refs/tags) semi-visually. 18 19It cannot show more than 29 branches and commits at a time. 20 21 22OPTIONS 23------- 24<rev>:: 25 Arbitrary extended SHA1 expression (see `git-rev-parse`) 26 that typically names a branch HEAD or a tag. 27 28<glob>:: 29 A glob pattern that matches branch or tag names under 30 $GIT_DIR/refs. For example, if you have many topic 31 branches under $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/topic, giving 32 `topic/*` would show all of them. 33 34--all --heads --tags:: 35 Show all refs under $GIT_DIR/refs, $GIT_DIR/refs/heads, 36 and $GIT_DIR/refs/tags, respectively. 37 38--topo-order:: 39 By default, the branches and their commits are shown in 40 reverse chronological order. This option makes them 41 appear in topological order (i.e., descendant commits 42 are shown before their parents). 43 44--more=<n>:: 45 Usually the command stops output upon showing the commit 46 that is the common ancestor of all the branches. This 47 flag tells the command to go <n> more common commits 48 beyond that. When <n> is negative, display only the 49 <reference>s given, without showing the commit ancestry 50 tree. 51 52--list:: 53 Synomym to `--more=-1` 54 55--merge-base:: 56 Instead of showing the commit list, just act like the 57 'git-merge-base -a' command, except that it can accept 58 more than two heads. 59 60--independent:: 61 Among the <reference>s given, display only the ones that 62 cannot be reached from any other <reference>. 63 64--no-name:: 65 Do not show naming strings for each commit. 66 67--sha1-name:: 68 Instead of naming the commits using the path to reach 69 them from heads (e.g. "master~2" to mean the grandparent 70 of "master"), name them with the unique prefix of their 71 object names. 72 73Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options 74are mutually exclusive. 75 76 77OUTPUT 78------ 79Given N <references>, the first N lines are the one-line 80description from their commit message. The branch head that is 81pointed at by $GIT_DIR/HEAD is prefixed with an asterisk '*' 82character while other heads are prefixed with a '!' character. 83 84Following these N lines, one-line log for each commit is 85displayed, indented N places. If a commit is on the I-th 86branch, the I-th indentation character shows a '+' sign; 87otherwise it shows a space. Each commit shows a short name that 88can be used as an extended SHA1 to name that commit. 89 90The following example shows three branches, "master", "fixes" 91and "mhf": 92 93------------------------------------------------ 94$ git show-branch master fixes mhf 95! [master] Add 'git show-branch'. 96 ! [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset" 97 ! [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching. 98--- 99 + [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching. 100 + [mhf~1] Use git-octopus when pulling more than one heads. 101 + [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset" 102 + [mhf~2] "git fetch --force". 103 + [mhf~3] Use .git/remote/origin, not .git/branches/origin. 104 + [mhf~4] Make "git pull" and "git fetch" default to origin 105 + [mhf~5] Infamous 'octopus merge' 106 + [mhf~6] Retire git-parse-remote. 107 + [mhf~7] Multi-head fetch. 108 + [mhf~8] Start adding the $GIT_DIR/remotes/ support. 109+++ [master] Add 'git show-branch'. 110------------------------------------------------ 111 112These three branches all forked from a common commit, [master], 113whose commit message is "Add 'git show-branch'. "fixes" branch 114adds one commit 'Introduce "reset type"'. "mhf" branch has many 115other commits. 116 117 118Author 119------ 120Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 121 122 123Documentation 124-------------- 125Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 126 127 128GIT 129--- 130Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite