Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/` are listed on the
command line as '<commit>'.
---branches::
+--branches[=pattern]::
Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` are listed
- on the command line as '<commit>'.
+ 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 impiled.
---tags::
+--tags[=pattern]::
Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` are listed
- on the command line as '<commit>'.
+ on the command line as '<commit>'. If `pattern` is given, limit
+ tags to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '*',
+ or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled.
---remotes::
+--remotes[=pattern]::
Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes` are listed
- on the command line as '<commit>'.
+ 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 impiled.
+
+--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 impiled.
+
+
+ifndef::git-rev-list[]
+--bisect::
+
+ Pretend as if the bad bisection ref `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/bad`
+ was listed and as if it was followed by `--not` and the good
+ bisection refs `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/good-*` on the command
+ line.
+endif::git-rev-list[]
-ifdef::git-rev-list[]
--stdin::
In addition to the '<commit>' listed on the command
- line, read them from the standard input.
+ line, read them from the standard input. If a '--' separator is
+ seen, stop reading commits and start reading paths to limit the
+ result.
+ifdef::git-rev-list[]
--quiet::
Don't print anything to standard output. This form
--bisect::
Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway between
-the included and excluded commits. Thus, if
+included and excluded commits. Note that the bad bisection ref
+`$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/bad` is added to the included commits (if it
+exists) and the good bisection refs `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/good-*` are
+added to the excluded commits (if they exist). Thus, supposing there
+are no refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/`, if
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$ git rev-list --bisect foo ^bar ^baz
--bisect-vars::
-This calculates the same as `--bisect`, but outputs text ready
-to be eval'ed by the shell. These lines will assign the name of
-the midpoint revision to the variable `bisect_rev`, and the
-expected number of commits to be tested after `bisect_rev` is
-tested to `bisect_nr`, the expected number of commits to be
-tested if `bisect_rev` turns out to be good to `bisect_good`,
-the expected number of commits to be tested if `bisect_rev`
-turns out to be bad to `bisect_bad`, and the number of commits
-we are bisecting right now to `bisect_all`.
+This calculates the same as `--bisect`, except that refs in
+`$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/` are not used, and except that this outputs
+text ready to be eval'ed by the shell. These lines will assign the
+name of the midpoint revision to the variable `bisect_rev`, and the
+expected number of commits to be tested after `bisect_rev` is tested
+to `bisect_nr`, the expected number of commits to be tested if
+`bisect_rev` turns out to be good to `bisect_good`, the expected
+number of commits to be tested if `bisect_rev` turns out to be bad to
+`bisect_bad`, and the number of commits we are bisecting right now to
+`bisect_all`.
--bisect-all::
This outputs all the commit objects between the included and excluded
commits, ordered by their distance to the included and excluded
-commits. The farthest from them is displayed first. (This is the only
-one displayed by `--bisect`.)
+commits. Refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/` are not used. The farthest
+from them is displayed first. (This is the only one displayed by
+`--bisect`.)
+
This is useful because it makes it easy to choose a good commit to
test when you want to avoid to test some of them for some reason (they