1git-whatchanged(1) 2================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-whatchanged - Show logs with difference each commit introduces 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git whatchanged' <option>... 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Shows commit logs and diff output each commit introduces. The 16command internally invokes 'git rev-list' piped to 17'git diff-tree', and takes command line options for both of 18these commands. 19 20This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. 21 22 23OPTIONS 24------- 25-p:: 26 Show textual diffs, instead of the git internal diff 27 output format that is useful only to tell the changed 28 paths and their nature of changes. 29 30-<n>:: 31 Limit output to <n> commits. 32 33<since>..<until>:: 34 Limit output to between the two named commits (bottom 35 exclusive, top inclusive). 36 37-r:: 38 Show git internal diff output, but for the whole tree, 39 not just the top level. 40 41-m:: 42 By default, differences for merge commits are not shown. 43 With this flag, show differences to that commit from all 44 of its parents. 45+ 46However, it is not very useful in general, although it 47*is* useful on a file-by-file basis. 48 49include::pretty-options.txt[] 50 51include::pretty-formats.txt[] 52 53Examples 54-------- 55git whatchanged -p v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi:: 56 57 Show as patches the commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed 58 any file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories 59 60git whatchanged --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk:: 61 62 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'. 63 The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named 64 'gitk' 65 66 67Author 68------ 69Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 70Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 71 72 73Documentation 74-------------- 75Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 76 77GIT 78--- 79Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite