--------
[verse]
'git-rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ]
+ [ \--skip=number ]
[ \--max-age=timestamp ]
[ \--min-age=timestamp ]
[ \--sparse ]
+ [ \--merges ]
[ \--no-merges ]
+ [ \--first-parent ]
[ \--remove-empty ]
+ [ \--full-history ]
+ [ \--not ]
[ \--all ]
- [ [ \--merge-order [ \--show-breaks ] ] | [ \--topo-order ] ]
+ [ \--branches ]
+ [ \--tags ]
+ [ \--remotes ]
+ [ \--stdin ]
+ [ \--quiet ]
+ [ \--topo-order ]
[ \--parents ]
- [ \--objects [ \--unpacked ] ]
+ [ \--timestamp ]
+ [ \--left-right ]
+ [ \--cherry-pick ]
+ [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
+ [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
+ [ \--regexp-ignore-case | -i ]
+ [ \--extended-regexp | -E ]
+ [ \--fixed-strings | -F ]
+ [ \--date={local|relative|default|iso|rfc|short} ]
+ [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
[ \--pretty | \--header ]
[ \--bisect ]
+ [ \--bisect-vars ]
+ [ \--bisect-all ]
+ [ \--merge ]
+ [ \--reverse ]
+ [ \--walk-reflogs ]
+ [ \--no-walk ] [ \--do-walk ]
<commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the
-given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account. This is
-useful to produce human-readable log output.
-Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to stop at
-that point. Their parents are implied. "git-rev-list foo bar {caret}baz" thus
-means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but
-not in 'baz'".
+List commits that are reachable by following the `parent` links from the
+given commit(s), but exclude commits that are reachable from the one(s)
+given with a '{caret}' in front of them. The output is given in reverse
+chronological order by default.
-A special notation <commit1>..<commit2> can be used as a
-short-hand for {caret}<commit1> <commit2>.
+You can think of this as a set operation. Commits given on the command
+line form a set of commits that are reachable from any of them, and then
+commits reachable from any of the ones given with '{caret}' in front are
+subtracted from that set. The remaining commits are what comes out in the
+command's output. Various other options and paths parameters can be used
+to further limit the result.
+Thus, the following command:
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ $ git rev-list foo bar ^baz
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+means "list all the commits which are reachable from 'foo' or 'bar', but
+not from 'baz'".
+
+A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
+short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of
+the following may be used interchangeably:
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ $ git rev-list origin..HEAD
+ $ git rev-list HEAD ^origin
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Another special notation is "'<commit1>'...'<commit2>'" which is useful
+for merges. The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference
+between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent:
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ $ git rev-list A B --not $(git merge-base --all A B)
+ $ git rev-list A...B
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+'rev-list' is a very essential git command, since it
+provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For
+this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be
+used by commands as different as 'git-bisect' and
+'git-repack'.
OPTIONS
-------
---pretty::
- Print the contents of the commit changesets in human-readable form.
-
---header::
- Print the contents of the commit in raw-format; each
- record is separated with a NUL character.
-
---objects::
- Print the object IDs of any object referenced by the listed commits.
- 'git-rev-list --objects foo ^bar' thus means "send me all object IDs
- which I need to download if I have the commit object 'bar', but
- not 'foo'".
-
---unpacked::
- Only useful with `--objects`; print the object IDs that
- are not in packs.
-
---bisect::
- Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway
- between the included and excluded commits. Thus, if 'git-rev-list
- --bisect foo ^bar ^baz' outputs 'midpoint', the output
- of 'git-rev-list foo ^midpoint' and 'git-rev-list midpoint
- ^bar ^baz' would be of roughly the same length. Finding the change
- which introduces a regression is thus reduced to a binary search:
- repeatedly generate and test new 'midpoint's until the commit chain
- is of length one.
-
---max-count::
- Limit the number of commits output.
-
---max-age=timestamp, --min-age=timestamp::
- Limit the commits output to specified time range.
-
---sparse::
- When optional paths are given, the command outputs only
- the commits that changes at least one of them, and also
- ignores merges that do not touch the given paths. This
- flag makes the command output all eligible commits
- (still subject to count and age limitation), but apply
- merge simplification nevertheless.
-
---remove-empty::
- Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
-
---all::
- Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/` are
- listed on the command line as <commit>.
-
---topo-order::
- By default, the commits are shown in reverse
- chronological order. This option makes them appear in
- topological order (i.e. descendant commits are shown
- before their parents).
-
---merge-order::
- When specified the commit history is decomposed into a unique
- sequence of minimal, non-linear epochs and maximal, linear epochs.
- Non-linear epochs are then linearised by sorting them into merge
- order, which is described below.
-+
-Maximal, linear epochs correspond to periods of sequential development.
-Minimal, non-linear epochs correspond to periods of divergent development
-followed by a converging merge. The theory of epochs is described in more
-detail at
-link:http://blackcubes.dyndns.org/epoch/[http://blackcubes.dyndns.org/epoch/].
-+
-The merge order for a non-linear epoch is defined as a linearisation for which
-the following invariants are true:
-+
- 1. if a commit P is reachable from commit N, commit P sorts after commit N
- in the linearised list.
- 2. if Pi and Pj are any two parents of a merge M (with i < j), then any
- commit N, such that N is reachable from Pj but not reachable from Pi,
- sorts before all commits reachable from Pi.
-+
-Invariant 1 states that later commits appear before earlier commits they are
-derived from.
-+
-Invariant 2 states that commits unique to "later" parents in a merge, appear
-before all commits from "earlier" parents of a merge.
-
---show-breaks::
- Each item of the list is output with a 2-character prefix consisting
- of one of: (|), (^), (=) followed by a space.
-+
-Commits marked with (=) represent the boundaries of minimal, non-linear epochs
-and correspond either to the start of a period of divergent development or to
-the end of such a period.
-+
-Commits marked with (|) are direct parents of commits immediately preceding
-the marked commit in the list.
-+
-Commits marked with (^) are not parents of the immediately preceding commit.
-These "breaks" represent necessary discontinuities implied by trying to
-represent an arbitrary DAG in a linear form.
-+
-`--show-breaks` is only valid if `--merge-order` is also specified.
+
+:git-rev-list: 1
+include::rev-list-options.txt[]
+
+include::pretty-formats.txt[]
Author
------
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-Original *--merge-order* logic by Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
-
Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca
+and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite