1git-rev-list(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git-rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ] 13 [ \--max-age=timestamp ] 14 [ \--min-age=timestamp ] 15 [ \--sparse ] 16 [ \--no-merges ] 17 [ \--remove-empty ] 18 [ \--all ] 19 [ \--topo-order ] 20 [ \--parents ] 21 [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ] 22 [ \--pretty | \--header ] 23 [ \--bisect ] 24 <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ] 25 26DESCRIPTION 27----------- 28Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the 29given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account. This is 30useful to produce human-readable log output. 31 32Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to stop at 33that point. Their parents are implied. "git-rev-list foo bar {caret}baz" thus 34means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but 35not in 'baz'". 36 37A special notation <commit1>..<commit2> can be used as a 38short-hand for {caret}<commit1> <commit2>. 39 40 41OPTIONS 42------- 43--pretty:: 44 Print the contents of the commit changesets in human-readable form. 45 46--header:: 47 Print the contents of the commit in raw-format; each 48 record is separated with a NUL character. 49 50--objects:: 51 Print the object IDs of any object referenced by the listed commits. 52 'git-rev-list --objects foo ^bar' thus means "send me all object IDs 53 which I need to download if I have the commit object 'bar', but 54 not 'foo'". 55 56--objects-edge:: 57 Similar to `--objects`, but also print the IDs of 58 excluded commits refixed with a `-` character. This is 59 used by `git-pack-objects` to build 'thin' pack, which 60 records objects in deltified form based on objects 61 contained in these excluded commits to reduce network 62 traffic. 63 64--unpacked:: 65 Only useful with `--objects`; print the object IDs that 66 are not in packs. 67 68--bisect:: 69 Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway 70 between the included and excluded commits. Thus, if 'git-rev-list 71 --bisect foo {caret}bar {caret}baz' outputs 'midpoint', the output 72 of 'git-rev-list foo {caret}midpoint' and 'git-rev-list midpoint 73 {caret}bar {caret}baz' would be of roughly the same length. 74 Finding the change 75 which introduces a regression is thus reduced to a binary search: 76 repeatedly generate and test new 'midpoint's until the commit chain 77 is of length one. 78 79--max-count:: 80 Limit the number of commits output. 81 82--max-age=timestamp, --min-age=timestamp:: 83 Limit the commits output to specified time range. 84 85--sparse:: 86 When optional paths are given, the command outputs only 87 the commits that changes at least one of them, and also 88 ignores merges that do not touch the given paths. This 89 flag makes the command output all eligible commits 90 (still subject to count and age limitation), but apply 91 merge simplification nevertheless. 92 93--remove-empty:: 94 Stop when a given path disappears from the tree. 95 96--all:: 97 Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/` are 98 listed on the command line as <commit>. 99 100--topo-order:: 101 By default, the commits are shown in reverse 102 chronological order. This option makes them appear in 103 topological order (i.e. descendant commits are shown 104 before their parents). 105 106Author 107------ 108Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 109 110Documentation 111-------------- 112Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 113 114GIT 115--- 116Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 117