NAME
----
-git-rev-parse - Pick out and massage parameters.
+git-rev-parse - Pick out and massage parameters
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-rev-parse' [ --option ] <args>...
+[verse]
+'git rev-parse' [ --option ] <args>...
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Many git Porcelainish commands take mixture of flags
+Many Git porcelainish commands take mixture of flags
(i.e. parameters that begin with a dash '-') and parameters
-meant for underlying `git-rev-list` command they use internally
-and flags and parameters for other commands they use as the
-downstream of `git-rev-list`. This command is used to
+meant for the underlying 'git rev-list' command they use internally
+and flags and parameters for the other commands they use
+downstream of 'git rev-list'. This command is used to
distinguish between them.
OPTIONS
-------
+
+Operation Modes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Each of these options must appear first on the command line.
+
+--parseopt::
+ Use 'git rev-parse' in option parsing mode (see PARSEOPT section below).
+
+--sq-quote::
+ Use 'git rev-parse' in shell quoting mode (see SQ-QUOTE
+ section below). In contrast to the `--sq` option below, this
+ mode does only quoting. Nothing else is done to command input.
+
+Options for --parseopt
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+--keep-dashdash::
+ Only meaningful in `--parseopt` mode. Tells the option parser to echo
+ out the first `--` met instead of skipping it.
+
+--stop-at-non-option::
+ Only meaningful in `--parseopt` mode. Lets the option parser stop at
+ the first non-option argument. This can be used to parse sub-commands
+ that take options themselves.
+
+--stuck-long::
+ Only meaningful in `--parseopt` mode. Output the options in their
+ long form if available, and with their arguments stuck.
+
+Options for Filtering
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
--revs-only::
Do not output flags and parameters not meant for
- `git-rev-list` command.
+ 'git rev-list' command.
--no-revs::
Do not output flags and parameters meant for
- `git-rev-list` command.
+ 'git rev-list' command.
--flags::
Do not output non-flag parameters.
--no-flags::
Do not output flag parameters.
+Options for Output
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
--default <arg>::
If there is no parameter given by the user, use `<arg>`
instead.
+--prefix <arg>::
+ Behave as if 'git rev-parse' was invoked from the `<arg>`
+ subdirectory of the working tree. Any relative filenames are
+ resolved as if they are prefixed by `<arg>` and will be printed
+ in that form.
++
+This can be used to convert arguments to a command run in a subdirectory
+so that they can still be used after moving to the top-level of the
+repository. For example:
++
+----
+prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)
+cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")"
+----
+
--verify::
- The parameter given must be usable as a single, valid
- object name. Otherwise barf and abort.
+ Verify that exactly one parameter is provided, and that it
+ can be turned into a raw 20-byte SHA-1 that can be used to
+ access the object database. If so, emit it to the standard
+ output; otherwise, error out.
++
+If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in
+your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object
+you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
+For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR`
+names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an
+annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR`
+names an existing object of any type, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{object}"`
+can be used.
+
+-q::
+--quiet::
+ Only meaningful in `--verify` mode. Do not output an error
+ message if the first argument is not a valid object name;
+ instead exit with non-zero status silently.
--sq::
Usually the output is made one line per flag and
properly quoted for consumption by shell. Useful when
you expect your parameter to contain whitespaces and
newlines (e.g. when using pickaxe `-S` with
- `git-diff-\*`).
+ 'git diff-{asterisk}'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option,
+ the command input is still interpreted as usual.
--not::
- When showing object names, prefix them with '^' and
- strip '^' prefix from the object names that already have
+ When showing object names, prefix them with '{caret}' and
+ strip '{caret}' prefix from the object names that already have
one.
+--abbrev-ref[=(strict|loose)]::
+ A non-ambiguous short name of the objects name.
+ The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
+ abbreviation mode.
+
+--short::
+--short=number::
+ Instead of outputting the full SHA-1 values of object names try to
+ abbreviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified
+ 7 is used. The minimum length is 4.
+
--symbolic::
- Usually the object names are output in SHA1 form (with
- possible '^' prefix); this option makes them output in a
+ Usually the object names are output in SHA-1 form (with
+ possible '{caret}' prefix); this option makes them output in a
form as close to the original input as possible.
+--symbolic-full-name::
+ This is similar to \--symbolic, but it omits input that
+ are not refs (i.e. branch or tag names; or more
+ explicitly disambiguating "heads/master" form, when you
+ want to name the "master" branch when there is an
+ unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full
+ refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master").
+
+Options for Objects
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--all::
- Show all refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs`.
+ Show all refs found in `refs/`.
+
+--branches[=pattern]::
+--tags[=pattern]::
+--remotes[=pattern]::
+ Show all branches, tags, or remote-tracking branches,
+ respectively (i.e., refs found in `refs/heads`,
+ `refs/tags`, or `refs/remotes`, respectively).
++
+If a `pattern` is given, only refs matching the given shell glob are
+shown. If the pattern does not contain a globbing character (`?`,
+`*`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix match by appending `/*`.
+
+--glob=pattern::
+ Show all refs matching the shell glob pattern `pattern`. If
+ the pattern does not start with `refs/`, this is automatically
+ prepended. If the pattern does not contain a globbing
+ character (`?`, `*`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix
+ match by appending `/*`.
+
+--exclude=<glob-pattern>::
+ Do not include refs matching '<glob-pattern>' that the next `--all`,
+ `--branches`, `--tags`, `--remotes`, or `--glob` would otherwise
+ consider. Repetitions of this option accumulate exclusion patterns
+ up to the next `--all`, `--branches`, `--tags`, `--remotes`, or
+ `--glob` option (other options or arguments do not clear
+ accumlated patterns).
++
+The patterns given should not begin with `refs/heads`, `refs/tags`, or
+`refs/remotes` when applied to `--branches`, `--tags`, or `--remotes`,
+respectively, and they must begin with `refs/` when applied to `--glob`
+or `--all`. If a trailing '/{asterisk}' is intended, it must be given
+explicitly.
+
+--disambiguate=<prefix>::
+ Show every object whose name begins with the given prefix.
+ The <prefix> must be at least 4 hexadecimal digits long to
+ avoid listing each and every object in the repository by
+ mistake.
+
+Options for Files
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+--local-env-vars::
+ List the GIT_* environment variables that are local to the
+ repository (e.g. GIT_DIR or GIT_WORK_TREE, but not GIT_EDITOR).
+ Only the names of the variables are listed, not their value,
+ even if they are set.
+
+--git-dir::
+ Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined. Otherwise show the path to
+ the .git directory. The path shown, when relative, is
+ relative to the current working directory.
++
+If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory
+is not detected to lie in a Git repository or work tree
+print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status.
+
+--is-inside-git-dir::
+ When the current working directory is below the repository
+ directory print "true", otherwise "false".
+
+--is-inside-work-tree::
+ When the current working directory is inside the work tree of the
+ repository print "true", otherwise "false".
+
+--is-bare-repository::
+ When the repository is bare print "true", otherwise "false".
+
+--resolve-git-dir <path>::
+ Check if <path> is a valid repository or a gitfile that
+ points at a valid repository, and print the location of the
+ repository. If <path> is a gitfile then the resolved path
+ to the real repository is printed.
+
+--show-cdup::
+ When the command is invoked from a subdirectory, show the
+ path of the top-level directory relative to the current
+ directory (typically a sequence of "../", or an empty string).
--show-prefix::
- When the command is invoked from a directory show the
+ When the command is invoked from a subdirectory, show the
path of the current directory relative to the top-level
directory.
+--show-toplevel::
+ Show the absolute path of the top-level directory.
+
+Other Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+--since=datestring::
+--after=datestring::
+ Parse the date string, and output the corresponding
+ --max-age= parameter for 'git rev-list'.
+
+--until=datestring::
+--before=datestring::
+ Parse the date string, and output the corresponding
+ --min-age= parameter for 'git rev-list'.
+
<args>...::
Flags and parameters to be parsed.
-SPECIFYING REVISIONS
---------------------
+include::revisions.txt[]
+
+PARSEOPT
+--------
+
+In `--parseopt` mode, 'git rev-parse' helps massaging options to bring to shell
+scripts the same facilities C builtins have. It works as an option normalizer
+(e.g. splits single switches aggregate values), a bit like `getopt(1)` does.
+
+It takes on the standard input the specification of the options to parse and
+understand, and echoes on the standard output a string suitable for `sh(1)` `eval`
+to replace the arguments with normalized ones. In case of error, it outputs
+usage on the standard error stream, and exits with code 129.
+
+Note: Make sure you quote the result when passing it to `eval`. See
+below for an example.
+
+Input Format
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
-A revision parameter typically names a commit object. They use
-what is called an 'extended SHA1' syntax.
+'git rev-parse --parseopt' input format is fully text based. It has two parts,
+separated by a line that contains only `--`. The lines before the separator
+(should be one or more) are used for the usage.
+The lines after the separator describe the options.
-* The full SHA1 object name (40-byte hexadecimal string), or
- a substring of such that is unique within the repository.
- E.g. dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735 and dae86e both
- name the same commit object if there are no other object in
- your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.
+Each line of options has this format:
-* A symbolic ref name. E.g. 'master' typically means the commit
- object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master. If you
- happen to have both heads/master and tags/master, you can
- explicitly say 'heads/master' to tell GIT which one you mean.
+------------
+<opt-spec><flags>*<arg-hint>? SP+ help LF
+------------
-* A suffix '^' to a revision parameter means the first parent of
- that commit object. '^<n>' means the <n>th parent (i.e.
- 'rev^'
- is equivalent to 'rev^1'). As a special rule,
- 'rev^0' means the commit itself and is used when 'rev' is the
- object name of a tag object that refers to a commit object.
+`<opt-spec>`::
+ its format is the short option character, then the long option name
+ separated by a comma. Both parts are not required, though at least one
+ is necessary. `h,help`, `dry-run` and `f` are all three correct
+ `<opt-spec>`.
-* A suffix '~<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit
- object that is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named
- commit object, following only the first parent. I.e. rev~3 is
- equivalent to rev^^^ which is equivalent to rev^1^1^1.
+`<flags>`::
+ `<flags>` are of `*`, `=`, `?` or `!`.
+ * Use `=` if the option takes an argument.
-'git-rev-parse' also accepts a prefix '^' to revision parameter,
-which is passed to 'git-rev-list'. Two revision parameters
-concatenated with '..' is a short-hand for writing a range
-between them. I.e. 'r1..r2' is equivalent to saying '^r1 r2'
+ * Use `?` to mean that the option takes an optional argument. You
+ probably want to use the `--stuck-long` mode to be able to
+ unambiguously parse the optional argument.
+ * Use `*` to mean that this option should not be listed in the usage
+ generated for the `-h` argument. It's shown for `--help-all` as
+ documented in linkgit:gitcli[7].
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+ * Use `!` to not make the corresponding negated long option available.
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+`<arg-hint>`::
+ `<arg-hint>`, if specified, is used as a name of the argument in the
+ help output, for options that take arguments. `<arg-hint>` is
+ terminated by the first whitespace. It is customary to use a
+ dash to separate words in a multi-word argument hint.
+
+The remainder of the line, after stripping the spaces, is used
+as the help associated to the option.
+
+Blank lines are ignored, and lines that don't match this specification are used
+as option group headers (start the line with a space to create such
+lines on purpose).
+
+Example
+~~~~~~~
+
+------------
+OPTS_SPEC="\
+some-command [options] <args>...
+
+some-command does foo and bar!
+--
+h,help show the help
+
+foo some nifty option --foo
+bar= some cool option --bar with an argument
+baz=arg another cool option --baz with a named argument
+qux?path qux may take a path argument but has meaning by itself
+
+ An option group Header
+C? option C with an optional argument"
+
+eval "$(echo "$OPTS_SPEC" | git rev-parse --parseopt -- "$@" || echo exit $?)"
+------------
+
+
+Usage text
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+When `"$@"` is `-h` or `--help` in the above example, the following
+usage text would be shown:
+
+------------
+usage: some-command [options] <args>...
+
+ some-command does foo and bar!
+
+ -h, --help show the help
+ --foo some nifty option --foo
+ --bar ... some cool option --bar with an argument
+ --baz <arg> another cool option --baz with a named argument
+ --qux[=<path>] qux may take a path argument but has meaning by itself
+
+An option group Header
+ -C[...] option C with an optional argument
+------------
+
+SQ-QUOTE
+--------
+
+In `--sq-quote` mode, 'git rev-parse' echoes on the standard output a
+single line suitable for `sh(1)` `eval`. This line is made by
+normalizing the arguments following `--sq-quote`. Nothing other than
+quoting the arguments is done.
+
+If you want command input to still be interpreted as usual by
+'git rev-parse' before the output is shell quoted, see the `--sq`
+option.
+
+Example
+~~~~~~~
+
+------------
+$ cat >your-git-script.sh <<\EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+args=$(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@") # quote user-supplied arguments
+command="git frotz -n24 $args" # and use it inside a handcrafted
+ # command line
+eval "$command"
+EOF
+
+$ sh your-git-script.sh "a b'c"
+------------
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+* Print the object name of the current commit:
++
+------------
+$ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
+------------
+
+* Print the commit object name from the revision in the $REV shell variable:
++
+------------
+$ git rev-parse --verify $REV^{commit}
+------------
++
+This will error out if $REV is empty or not a valid revision.
+
+* Similar to above:
++
+------------
+$ git rev-parse --default master --verify $REV
+------------
++
+but if $REV is empty, the commit object name from master will be printed.
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite