Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/heads` are listed
on the command line as '<commit>'. If '<pattern>' is given, limit
branches to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?',
- '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
+ '{asterisk}', or '[', '/{asterisk}' at the end is implied.
--tags[=<pattern>]::
Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/tags` are listed
on the command line as '<commit>'. If '<pattern>' is given, limit
- tags to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '*',
- or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
+ tags to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '{asterisk}',
+ or '[', '/{asterisk}' at the end is implied.
--remotes[=<pattern>]::
Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/remotes` are listed
on the command line as '<commit>'. If '<pattern>' is given, limit
remote-tracking branches to ones matching given shell glob.
- If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
+ If pattern lacks '?', '{asterisk}', or '[', '/{asterisk}' at the end is implied.
--glob=<glob-pattern>::
Pretend as if all the refs matching shell glob '<glob-pattern>'
are listed on the command line as '<commit>'. Leading 'refs/',
- is automatically prepended if missing. If pattern lacks '?', '*',
- or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
+ is automatically prepended if missing. If pattern lacks '?', '{asterisk}',
+ or '[', '/{asterisk}' at the end is implied.
+--ignore-missing::
+
+ Upon seeing an invalid object name in the input, pretend as if
+ the bad input was not given.
ifndef::git-rev-list[]
--bisect::
+
For example, `--cherry-pick --right-only A...B` omits those
commits from `B` which are in `A` or are patch-equivalent to a commit in
-`A`. In other words, this lists the `{plus}` commits from `git cherry A B`.
+`A`. In other words, this lists the `+` commits from `git cherry A B`.
More precisely, `--cherry-pick --right-only --no-merges` gives the exact
list.
--full-history::
- As the default mode but does not prune some history.
+ Same as the default mode, but does not prune some history.
--dense::
\ / / / /
`-------------'
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-The horizontal line of history A--P is taken to be the first parent of
+The horizontal line of history A---P is taken to be the first parent of
each merge. The commits are:
* `I` is the initial commit, in which `foo` exists with contents
`---------'
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
-Note the major differences in `N` and `P` over '\--full-history':
+Note the major differences in `N` and `P` over '--full-history':
+
--
* `N`'s parent list had `I` removed, because it is an ancestor of the
When we want to find out what commits in `M` are contaminated with the
bug introduced by `D` and need fixing, however, we might want to view
only the subset of 'D..M' that are actually descendants of `D`, i.e.
-excluding `C` and `K`. This is exactly what the '\--ancestry-path'
+excluding `C` and `K`. This is exactly what the '--ancestry-path'
option does. Applied to the 'D..M' range, it results in:
+
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order.
---topo-order::
+--date-order::
+ Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but
+ otherwise show commits in the commit timestamp order.
- This option makes them appear in topological order (i.e.
- descendant commits are shown before their parents).
+--topo-order::
+ Show no parents before all of its children are shown, and
+ avoid showing commits on multiple lines of history
+ intermixed.
++
+For example, in a commit history like this:
++
+----------------------------------------------------------------
---date-order::
+ ---1----2----4----7
+ \ \
+ 3----5----6----8---
- This option is similar to '--topo-order' in the sense that no
- parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things
- are still ordered in the commit timestamp order.
+----------------------------------------------------------------
++
+where the numbers denote the order of commit timestamps, `git
+rev-list` and friends with `--date-order` show the commits in the
+timestamp order: 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
++
+With `--topo-order`, they would show 8 6 5 3 7 4 2 1 (or 8 7 4 2 6 5
+3 1); some older commits are shown before newer ones in order to
+avoid showing the commits from two parallel development track mixed
+together.
--reverse::
--no-walk::
Only show the given revs, but do not traverse their ancestors.
+ This has no effect if a range is specified.
--do-walk::
Print a number stating how many commits would have been
listed, and suppress all other output. When used together
with '--left-right', instead print the counts for left and
- right commits, separated by a tab.
+ right commits, separated by a tab. When used together with
+ '--cherry-mark', omit patch equivalent commits from these
+ counts and print the count for equivalent commits separated
+ by a tab.
endif::git-rev-list[]
--cc::
- This flag implies the '-c' options and further compresses the
+ This flag implies the '-c' option and further compresses the
patch output by omitting uninteresting hunks whose contents in
the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks
one of them without modification.