GIT-REV-LIST(1)GIT-REV-LIST(1)NAMEgit-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
SYNOPSIS
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 ]
[ --branches[=<pattern>] ]
[ --tags[=<pattern>] ]
[ --remotes[=<pattern>] ]
[ --glob=<glob-pattern> ]
[ --stdin ]
[ --quiet ]
[ --topo-order ]
[ --parents ]
[ --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
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 ^ in front of them. The output is given in reverse chrono-
logical order by default.
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
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then commits reachable from any of the ones given with ^ 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:
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$ git rev-list foo bar ^baz
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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 "^<commit1> <commit2>". For example, either of the following may be
used interchangeably:
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$ git rev-list origin..HEAD
$ git rev-list HEAD ^origin
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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:
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$ git rev-list A B --not $(git merge-base --all A B)
$ git rev-list A...B
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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 dif-
ferent as git bisect and git repack.
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Commit Formatting
Using these options, git-rev-list(1) will act similar to the more spe-
cialized family of commit log tools: git-log(1), git-show(1), and
git-whatchanged(1)
--pretty[=<format>], --format=<format>
Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
where <format> can be one of oneline, short, medium, full,
fuller, email, raw and format:<string>. See the "PRETTY FORMATS"
section for some additional details for each format. When omit-
ted, the format defaults to medium.
Note: you can specify the default pretty format in the reposi-
tory configuration (see git-config(1)).
--abbrev-commit
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
name, show only a partial prefix. Non default number of digits
can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies diff
output, if it is displayed).
This should make "--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable
for people using 80-column terminals.
--oneline
This is a shorthand for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit" used
together.
--encoding[=<encoding>]
The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding pre-
ferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this defaults to
UTF-8.
--no-notes, --show-notes[=<ref>]
Show the notes (see git-notes(1)) that annotate the commit, when
showing the commit log message. This is the default for git log,
git show and git whatchanged commands when there is no --pretty,
--format nor --oneline option is given on the command line.
With an optional argument, add this ref to the list of notes.
The ref is taken to be in refs/notes/ if it is not qualified.
--[no-]standard-notes
Enable or disable populating the notes ref list from the
core.notesRef and notes.displayRef variables (or corresponding
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environment overrides). Enabled by default. See git-config(1).
--relative-date
Synonym for --date=relative.
--date=(relative|local|default|iso|rfc|short|raw)
Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such
as when using "--pretty". log.date config variable sets a
default value for log command’s --date option.
--date=relative shows dates relative to the current time, e.g.
"2 hours ago".
--date=local shows timestamps in user’s local timezone.
--date=iso (or --date=iso8601) shows timestamps in ISO 8601 for-
mat.
--date=rfc (or --date=rfc2822) shows timestamps in RFC 2822 for-
mat, often found in E-mail messages.
--date=short shows only date but not time, in YYYY-MM-DD format.
--date=raw shows the date in the internal raw git format %s %z
format.
--date=default shows timestamps in the original timezone (either
committer’s or author’s).
--header
Print the contents of the commit in raw-format; each record is
separated with a NUL character.
--parents
Print also the parents of the commit (in the form "commit par-
ent..."). Also enables parent rewriting, see History Simplifica-
tion below.
--children
Print also the children of the commit (in the form "commit
child..."). Also enables parent rewriting, see History Simplifi-
cation below.
--timestamp
Print the raw commit timestamp.
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Mark which side of a symmetric diff 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 -.
For example, if you have this topology:
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y---b---b branch B
/ \ /
/ .
/ / \
o---x---a---a branch A
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you would get an output like this:
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$ git rev-list --left-right --boundary --pretty=oneline A...B
>bbbbbbb... 3rd on b
>bbbbbbb... 2nd on b
<aaaaaaa... 3rd on a
<aaaaaaa... 2nd on a
-yyyyyyy... 1st on b
-xxxxxxx... 1st on a
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--graph
Draw a text-based graphical representation of the commit history
on the left hand side of the output. This may cause extra lines
to be printed in between commits, in order for the graph history
to be drawn properly.
This enables parent rewriting, see History Simplification below.
This implies the --topo-order option by default, but the
--date-order option may also be specified.
--count
Print a number stating how many commits would have been listed,
and suppress all other output. When used together with
--left-right, instead print the counts for left and right
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commits, separated by a tab.
Commit Limiting
Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the
special notations explained in the description, additional commit lim-
iting may be applied.
-n number, --max-count=<number>
Limit the number of commits output.
--skip=<number>
Skip number commits before starting to show the commit output.
--since=<date>, --after=<date>
Show commits more recent than a specific date.
--until=<date>, --before=<date>
Show commits older than a specific date.
--max-age=<timestamp>, --min-age=<timestamp>
Limit the commits output to specified time range.
--author=<pattern>, --committer=<pattern>
Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer header
lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).
--grep=<pattern>
Limit the commits output to ones with log message that matches
the specified pattern (regular expression).
--all-match
Limit the commits output to ones that match all given --grep,
--author and --committer instead of ones that match at least
one.
-i, --regexp-ignore-case
Match the regexp limiting patterns without regard to letters
case.
-E, --extended-regexp
Consider the limiting patterns to be extended regular expres-
sions instead of the default basic regular expressions.
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Consider the limiting patterns to be fixed strings (don’t
interpret pattern as a regular expression).
--remove-empty
Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
--merges
Print only merge commits.
--no-merges
Do not print commits with more than one parent.
--first-parent
Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge commit.
This option can give a better overview when viewing the evolu-
tion of a particular topic branch, because merges into a topic
branch tend to be only about adjusting to updated upstream from
time to time, and this option allows you to ignore the individ-
ual commits brought in to your history by such a merge.
--not Reverses the meaning of the ^ prefix (or lack thereof) 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>.
--branches[=<pattern>]
Pretend as if all the refs in refs/heads are listed on the com-
mand line as <commit>. If <pattern> is given, limit branches to
ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks ?, , or [, / at
the end is implied.
--tags[=<pattern>]
Pretend as if all the refs in refs/tags are listed on the com-
mand line as <commit>. If <pattern> is given, limit tags to ones
matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks ?, , or [, / at the
end is implied.
--remotes[=<pattern>]
Pretend as if all the refs in refs/remotes are listed 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 implied.
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--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 implied.
--stdin
In addition to the <commit> listed on the command line, read
them from the standard input. If a -- separator is seen, stop
reading commits and start reading paths to limit the result.
--quiet
Don’t print anything to standard output. This form is pri-
marily meant to allow the caller to test the exit status to see
if a range of objects is fully connected (or not). It is faster
than redirecting stdout to /dev/null as the output does not have
to be formatted.
--cherry-pick
Omit any commit that introduces the same change as another com-
mit on the "other side" when the set of commits are limited with
symmetric difference.
For example, if you have two branches, A and B, a usual way to
list all commits on only one side of them is with --left-right,
like the example above in the description of that option. It
however shows the commits that were cherry-picked from the other
branch (for example, "3rd on b" may be cherry-picked from branch
A). With this option, such pairs of commits are excluded from
the output.
-g, --walk-reflogs
Instead of walking the commit ancestry chain, walk reflog
entries from the most recent one to older ones. When this option
is used you cannot specify commits to exclude (that is, ^commit,
commit1..commit2, nor commit1...commit2 notations cannot be
used).
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 com-
mit@{now}, output also uses commit@{timestamp} notation instead.
Under --pretty=oneline, the commit message is prefixed with this
information on the same line. This option cannot be combined
with --reverse. See also git-reflog(1).
--merge
After a failed merge, show refs that touch files having a
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conflict and don’t exist on all heads to merge.
--boundary
Output uninteresting commits at the boundary, which are usually
not shown.
History Simplification
Sometimes you are only interested in parts of the history, for example
the commits modifying a particular <path>. But there are two parts of
History Simplification, one part is selecting the commits and the other
is how to do it, as there are various strategies to simplify the his-
tory.
The following options select the commits to be shown:
<paths>
Commits modifying the given <paths> are selected.
--simplify-by-decoration
Commits that are referred by some branch or tag are selected.
Note that extra commits can be shown to give a meaningful his-
tory.
The following options affect the way the simplification is per-
formed:
Default mode
Simplifies the history to the simplest history explaining the
final state of the tree. Simplest because it prunes some side
branches if the end result is the same (i.e. merging branches
with the same content)
--full-history
As the default mode but does not prune some history.
--dense
Only the selected commits are shown, plus some to have a mean-
ingful history.
--sparse
All commits in the simplified history are shown.
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Additional option to --full-history to remove some needless
merges from the resulting history, as there are no selected com-
mits contributing to this merge.
--ancestry-path
When given a range of commits to display (e.g. commit1..commit2
or commit2 ^commit1), only display commits that exist directly
on the ancestry chain between the commit1 and commit2, i.e. com-
mits that are both descendants of commit1, and ancestors of com-
mit2.
A more detailed explanation follows.
Suppose you specified foo as the <paths>. We shall call commits
that modify foo !TREESAME, and the rest TREESAME. (In a diff
filtered for foo, they look different and equal, respectively.)
In the following, we will always refer to the same example his-
tory to illustrate the differences between simplification set-
tings. We assume that you are filtering for a file foo in this
commit graph:
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.-A---M---N---O---P
/ / / / /
I B C D E
\ / / / /
`-------------'
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The horizontal line of history A--P is taken to be the first
parent of each merge. The commits are:
o I is the initial commit, in which foo exists with contents "asdf",
and a file quux exists with contents "quux". Initial commits are
compared to an empty tree, so I is !TREESAME.
o In A, foo contains just "foo".
o B contains the same change as A. Its merge M is trivial and hence
TREESAME to all parents.
o C does not change foo, but its merge N changes it to "foobar", so
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it is not TREESAME to any parent.
o D sets foo to "baz". Its merge O combines the strings from N and D
to "foobarbaz"; i.e., it is not TREESAME to any parent.
o E changes quux to "xyzzy", and its merge P combines the strings to
"quux xyzzy". Despite appearing interesting, P is TREESAME to all
parents.
rev-list walks backwards through history, including or excluding com-
mits based on whether --full-history and/or parent rewriting (via
--parents or --children) are used. The following settings are avail-
able.
Default mode
Commits are included if they are not TREESAME to any parent
(though this can be changed, see --sparse below). If the commit
was a merge, and it was TREESAME to one parent, follow only that
parent. (Even if there are several TREESAME parents, follow only
one of them.) Otherwise, follow all parents.
This results in:
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.-A---N---O
/ / /
I---------D
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Note how the rule to only follow the TREESAME parent, if one is
available, removed B from consideration entirely. C was consid-
ered via N, but is TREESAME. Root commits are compared to an
empty tree, so I is !TREESAME.
Parent/child relations are only visible with --parents, but that
does not affect the commits selected in default mode, so we have
shown the parent lines.
--full-history without parent rewriting
This mode differs from the default in one point: always follow
all parents of a merge, even if it is TREESAME to one of them.
Even if more than one side of the merge has commits that are
included, this does not imply that the merge itself is! In the
example, we get
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I A B N D O
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P and M were excluded because they are TREESAME to a parent. E,
C and B were all walked, but only B was !TREESAME, so the others
do not appear.
Note that without parent rewriting, it is not really possible to
talk about the parent/child relationships between the commits,
so we show them disconnected.
--full-history with parent rewriting
Ordinary commits are only included if they are !TREESAME (though
this can be changed, see --sparse below).
Merges are always included. However, their parent list is
rewritten: Along each parent, prune away commits that are not
included themselves. This results in
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.-A---M---N---O---P
/ / / / /
I B / D /
\ / / / /
`-------------'
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Compare to --full-history without rewriting above. Note that E
was pruned away because it is TREESAME, but the parent list of P
was rewritten to contain E's parent I. The same happened for C
and N. Note also that P was included despite being TREESAME.
In addition to the above settings, you can change whether
TREESAME affects inclusion:
--dense
Commits that are walked are included if they are not TREESAME to
any parent.
--sparse
All commits that are walked are included.
Note that without --full-history, this still simplifies merges:
if one of the parents is TREESAME, we follow only that one, so
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the other sides of the merge are never walked.
--simplify-merges
First, build a history graph in the same way that --full-history
with parent rewriting does (see above).
Then simplify each commit C to its replacement C' in the final
history according to the following rules:
o Set C' to C.
o Replace each parent P of C' with its simplification P'. In
the process, drop parents that are ancestors of other par-
ents, and remove duplicates.
o If after this parent rewriting, C' is a root or merge commit
(has zero or >1 parents), a boundary commit, or !TREESAME, it
remains. Otherwise, it is replaced with its only parent.
The effect of this is best shown by way of comparing to
--full-history with parent rewriting. The example turns into:
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.-A---M---N---O
/ / /
I B D
\ / /
`---------'
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Note the major differences in N and P over --full-history:
o N's parent list had I removed, because it is an ancestor of
the other parent M. Still, N remained because it is
!TREESAME.
o P's parent list similarly had I removed. P was then removed
completely, because it had one parent and is TREESAME.
Finally, there is a fifth simplification mode available:
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Limit the displayed commits to those directly on the ancestry
chain between the "from" and "to" commits in the given commit
range. I.e. only display commits that are ancestor of the "to"
commit, and descendants of the "from" commit.
As an example use case, consider the following commit history:
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D---E-------F
/ \ \
B---C---G---H---I---J
/ \
A-------K---------------L--M
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A regular D..M computes the set of commits that are ancestors of
M, but excludes the ones that are ancestors of D. This is useful
to see what happened to the history leading to M since D, in the
sense that "what does M have that did not exist in D". The
result in this example would be all the commits, except A and B
(and D itself, of course).
When we want to find out what commits in M are contaminated with
the bug introduced by D and need fixing, however, we might want
to view only the subset of D..M that are actually descendants of
D, i.e. excluding C and K. This is exactly what the --ances-
try-path option does. Applied to the D..M range, it results in:
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E-------F
\ \
G---H---I---J
\
L--M
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The --simplify-by-decoration option allows you to view only the
big picture of the topology of the history, by omitting commits
that are not referenced by tags. Commits are marked as !TREESAME
(in other words, kept after history simplification rules
described above) if (1) they are referenced by tags, or (2) they
change the contents of the paths given on the command line. All
other commits are marked as TREESAME (subject to be simplified
away).
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Bisection Helpers
--bisect
Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway
between included and excluded commits. Note that the bad bisec-
tion ref refs/bisect/bad is added to the included commits (if it
exists) and the good bisection refs refs/bisect/good-* are added
to the excluded commits (if they exist). Thus, supposing there
are no refs in refs/bisect/, if
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$ git rev-list --bisect foo ^bar ^baz
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outputs midpoint, the output of the two commands
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$ git rev-list foo ^midpoint
$ git rev-list midpoint ^bar ^baz
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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.
--bisect-vars
This calculates the same as --bisect, except that refs in
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. Refs in refs/bisect/ are not used. The far-
thest from them is displayed first. (This is the only one
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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 may not compile for example).
This option can be used along with --bisect-vars, in this case,
after all the sorted commit objects, there will be the same text
as if --bisect-vars had been used alone.
Commit Ordering
By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order.
--topo-order
This option makes them appear in topological order (i.e. descen-
dant commits are shown before their parents).
--date-order
This option is similar to --topo-order in the sense that no par-
ent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things are
still ordered in the commit timestamp order.
--reverse
Output the commits in reverse order. Cannot be combined with
--walk-reflogs.
Object Traversal
These options are mostly targeted for packing of git repositories.
--objects
Print the object IDs of any object referenced by the listed com-
mits. --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".
--objects-edge
Similar to --objects, but also print the IDs of excluded commits
prefixed with a "-" character. This is used by
git-pack-objects(1) to build "thin" pack, which records objects
in deltified form based on objects contained in these excluded
commits to reduce network traffic.
--unpacked
Only useful with --objects; print the object IDs that are not in
packs.
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Only show the given revs, but do not traverse their ancestors.
--do-walk
Overrides a previous --no-walk.
PRETTY FORMATS
If the commit is a merge, and if the pretty-format is not oneline,
email or raw, an additional line is inserted before the Author: line.
This line begins with "Merge: " and the sha1s of ancestral commits are
printed, separated by spaces. Note that the listed commits may not nec-
essarily be the list of the direct parent commits if you have limited
your view of history: for example, if you are only interested in
changes related to a certain directory or file.
There are several built-in formats, and you can define additional for-
mats by setting a pretty.<name> config option to either another format
name, or a format: string, as described below (see git-config(1)). Here
are the details of the built-in formats:
o oneline
<sha1> <title line>
This is designed to be as compact as possible.
o short
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
<title line>
o medium
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
Date: <author date>
<title line>
<full commit message>
o full
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
Commit: <committer>
<title line>
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<full commit message>
o fuller
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
AuthorDate: <author date>
Commit: <committer>
CommitDate: <committer date>
<title line>
<full commit message>
o email
From <sha1> <date>
From: <author>
Date: <author date>
Subject: [PATCH] <title line>
<full commit message>
o raw
The raw format shows the entire commit exactly as stored in the com-
mit object. Notably, the SHA1s are displayed in full, regardless of
whether --abbrev or --no-abbrev are used, and parents information
show the true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history sim-
plification into account.
o format:<string>
The format:<string> format allows you to specify which information
you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format, with the
notable exception that you get a newline with %n instead of \n.
E.g, format:"The author of %h was %an, %ar%nThe title was >>%s<<%n"
would show something like this:
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The author of fe6e0ee was Junio C Hamano, 23 hours ago
The title was >>t4119: test autocomputing -p<n> for traditional diff input.<<
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The placeholders are:
o %H: commit hash
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o %h: abbreviated commit hash
o %T: tree hash
o %t: abbreviated tree hash
o %P: parent hashes
o %p: abbreviated parent hashes
o %an: author name
o %aN: author name (respecting .mailmap, see git-shortlog(1) or
git-blame(1))
o %ae: author email
o %aE: author email (respecting .mailmap, see git-shortlog(1) or
git-blame(1))
o %ad: author date (format respects --date= option)
o %aD: author date, RFC2822 style
o %ar: author date, relative
o %at: author date, UNIX timestamp
o %ai: author date, ISO 8601 format
o %cn: committer name
o %cN: committer name (respecting .mailmap, see git-shortlog(1) or
git-blame(1))
o %ce: committer email
o %cE: committer email (respecting .mailmap, see git-shortlog(1)
or git-blame(1))
o %cd: committer date
o %cD: committer date, RFC2822 style
o %cr: committer date, relative
o %ct: committer date, UNIX timestamp
o %ci: committer date, ISO 8601 format
o %d: ref names, like the --decorate option of git-log(1)
o %e: encoding
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o %s: subject
o %f: sanitized subject line, suitable for a filename
o %b: body
o %B: raw body (unwrapped subject and body)
o %N: commit notes
o %gD: reflog selector, e.g., refs/stash@\{1\}
o %gd: shortened reflog selector, e.g., stash@\{1\}
o %gs: reflog subject
o %Cred: switch color to red
o %Cgreen: switch color to green
o %Cblue: switch color to blue
o %Creset: reset color
o %C(...): color specification, as described in color.branch.*
config option
o %m: left, right or boundary mark
o %n: newline
o %%: a raw %
o %x00: print a byte from a hex code
o %w([<w>[,<i1>[,<i2>]]]): switch line wrapping, like the -w
option of git-shortlog(1).
Note
Some placeholders may depend on other options given to the revi-
sion traversal engine. For example, the %g* reflog options will
insert an empty string unless we are traversing reflog entries
(e.g., by git log -g). The %d placeholder will use the "short"
decoration format if --decorate was not already provided on the
command line.
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If you add a {plus} (plus sign) after % of a placeholder, a line-feed
is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the place-
holder expands to a non-empty string.
If you add a - (minus sign) after % of a placeholder, line-feeds that
immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the place-
holder expands to an empty string.
If you add a ` ` (space) after % of a placeholder, a space is inserted
immediately before the expansion if and only if the placeholder expands
to a non-empty string.
o tformat:
The tformat: format works exactly like format:, except that it pro-
vides "terminator" semantics instead of "separator" semantics. In
other words, each commit has the message terminator character (usu-
ally a newline) appended, rather than a separator placed between
entries. This means that the final entry of a single-line format
will be properly terminated with a new line, just as the "oneline"
format does. For example:
.ft C
$ git log -2 --pretty=format:%h 4da45bef \
| perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
4da45be
7134973 -- NO NEWLINE
$ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef \
| perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
4da45be
7134973
.ft
In addition, any unrecognized string that has a % in it is inter-
preted as if it has tformat: in front of it. For example, these two
are equivalent:
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$ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef
$ git log -2 --pretty=%h 4da45bef
.ft
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org: mailto:torvalds@osdl.org>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Jonas Fonseca and the
git-list <git@vger.kernel.org: mailto:git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
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