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--pretty=<format>:: 42 Controls the output format for the commit logs. 43 <format> can be one of 'raw', 'medium', 'short', 'full', 44 and 'oneline'. 45 46-m:: 47 By default, differences for merge commits are not shown. 48 With this flag, show differences to that commit from all 49 of its parents. 50+ 51However, it is not very useful in general, although it 52*is* useful on a file-by-file basis. 53 54Examples 55-------- 56git-whatchanged -p v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi:: 57 58 Show as patches the commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed 59 any file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories 60 61git-whatchanged --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk:: 62 63 Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'. 64 The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named 65 'gitk' 66 67 68Author 69------ 70Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 71Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 72 73 74Documentation 75-------------- 76Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 77 78GIT 79--- 80Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 81