Consider the limiting patterns to be fixed strings (don't interpret
pattern as a regular expression).
+-P::
--perl-regexp::
- Consider the limiting patterns to be Perl-compatible regular expressions.
- Requires libpcre to be compiled in.
+ Consider the limiting patterns to be Perl-compatible regular
+ expressions.
++
+Support for these types of regular expressions is an optional
+compile-time dependency. If Git wasn't compiled with support for them
+providing this option will cause it to die.
--remove-empty::
Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
for all following revision specifiers, up to the next `--not`.
--all::
- Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/` are listed on the
- command line as '<commit>'.
+ Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/`, along with `HEAD`, are
+ listed on the command line as '<commit>'.
--branches[=<pattern>]::
Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/heads` are listed
--stdin::
In addition to the '<commit>' listed on the command
- line, read them from the standard input. If a '--' separator is
+ line, read them from the standard input. If a `--` separator is
seen, stop reading commits and start reading paths to limit the
result.
--left-only::
--right-only::
- List only commits on the respective side of a symmetric range,
+ List only commits on the respective side of a symmetric difference,
i.e. only those which would be marked `<` resp. `>` by
`--left-right`.
+
+
With `--pretty` format other than `oneline` (for obvious reasons),
this causes the output to have two extra lines of information
-taken from the reflog. By default, 'commit@\{Nth}' notation is
-used in the output. When the starting commit is specified as
-'commit@\{now}', output also uses 'commit@\{timestamp}' notation
-instead. Under `--pretty=oneline`, the commit message is
+taken from the reflog. The reflog designator in the output may be shown
+as `ref@{Nth}` (where `Nth` is the reverse-chronological index in the
+reflog) or as `ref@{timestamp}` (with the timestamp for that entry),
+depending on a few rules:
++
+--
+1. If the starting point is specified as `ref@{Nth}`, show the index
+format.
++
+2. If the starting point was specified as `ref@{now}`, show the
+timestamp format.
++
+3. If neither was used, but `--date` was given on the command line, show
+the timestamp in the format requested by `--date`.
++
+4. Otherwise, show the index format.
+--
++
+Under `--pretty=oneline`, the commit message is
prefixed with this information on the same line.
This option cannot be combined with `--reverse`.
See also linkgit:git-reflog[1].
Try to speed up the traversal using the pack bitmap index (if
one is available). Note that when traversing with `--objects`,
trees and blobs will not have their associated path printed.
+
+--progress=<header>::
+ Show progress reports on stderr as objects are considered. The
+ `<header>` text will be printed with each progress update.
endif::git-rev-list[]
--
together.
--reverse::
- Output the commits in reverse order.
- Cannot be combined with `--walk-reflogs`.
+ Output the commits chosen to be shown (see Commit Limiting
+ section above) in reverse order. Cannot be combined with
+ `--walk-reflogs`.
Object Traversal
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
`iso-local`), the user's local time zone is used instead.
+
`--date=relative` shows dates relative to the current time,
-e.g. ``2 hours ago''. The `-local` option cannot be used with
-`--raw` or `--relative`.
+e.g. ``2 hours ago''. The `-local` option has no effect for
+`--date=relative`.
+
`--date=local` is an alias for `--date=default-local`.
+
+
`--date=short` shows only the date, but not the time, in `YYYY-MM-DD` format.
+
-`--date=raw` shows the date in the internal raw Git format `%s %z` format.
-+
-`--date=format:...` feeds the format `...` to your system `strftime`.
+`--date=raw` shows the date as seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01
+00:00:00 UTC), followed by a space, and then the timezone as an offset
+from UTC (a `+` or `-` with four digits; the first two are hours, and
+the second two are minutes). I.e., as if the timestamp were formatted
+with `strftime("%s %z")`).
+Note that the `-local` option does not affect the seconds-since-epoch
+value (which is always measured in UTC), but does switch the accompanying
+timezone value.
++
+`--date=unix` shows the date as a Unix epoch timestamp (seconds since
+1970). As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local`
+has no effect.
++
+`--date=format:...` feeds the format `...` to your system `strftime`,
+except for %z and %Z, which are handled internally.
Use `--date=format:%c` to show the date in your system locale's
preferred format. See the `strftime` manual for a complete list of
format placeholders. When using `-local`, the correct syntax is
endif::git-rev-list[]
--left-right::
- Mark which side of a symmetric diff a commit is reachable from.
+ Mark which side of a symmetric difference a commit is reachable from.
Commits from the left side are prefixed with `<` and those from
the right with `>`. If combined with `--boundary`, those
commits are prefixed with `-`.