[ \--sparse ]
[ \--no-merges ]
[ \--remove-empty ]
+ [ \--not ]
[ \--all ]
- [ [ \--merge-order [ \--show-breaks ] ] | [ \--topo-order ] ]
+ [ \--topo-order ]
[ \--parents ]
[ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
[ \--pretty | \--header ]
A special notation <commit1>..<commit2> can be used as a
short-hand for {caret}<commit1> <commit2>.
+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
+------------
OPTIONS
-------
Print the contents of the commit in raw-format; each
record is separated with a NUL character.
+--parents::
+ Print the parents of the commit.
+
--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
--objects-edge::
Similar to `--objects`, but also print the IDs of
- excluded commits refixed with a `-` character. This is
+ excluded commits prefixed with a `-` character. This is
used by `git-pack-objects` to build 'thin' pack, which
records objects in deltified form based on objects
contained in these excluded commits to reduce network
--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
+ --bisect foo {caret}bar {caret}baz' outputs 'midpoint', the output
+ of 'git-rev-list foo {caret}midpoint' and 'git-rev-list midpoint
+ {caret}bar {caret}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.
--remove-empty::
Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
+--no-merges::
+ Do not print commits with more than one parent.
+
+--not::
+ Reverses the meaning of the '{caret}' prefix (or lack
+ thereof) for all following revision specifiers, up to
+ the next `--not`.
+
--all::
Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/` are
listed on the command line as <commit>.
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.
-
-
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>.