git-commit-vandalism/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt

git-rev-list(1)
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NAME
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git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order


SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
'git rev-list' [<options>] <commit>... [[--] <path>...]

DESCRIPTION
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:git-rev-list: 1
include::rev-list-description.txt[]

'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
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:git-rev-list: 1
include::rev-list-options.txt[]

include::pretty-formats.txt[]

EXAMPLES
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* Print the list of commits reachable from the current branch.
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git rev-list HEAD
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* Print the list of commits on this branch, but not present in the
  upstream branch.
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git rev-list @{upstream}..HEAD
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* Format commits with their author and commit message (see also the
  porcelain linkgit:git-log[1]).
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git rev-list --format=medium HEAD
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* Format commits along with their diffs (see also the porcelain
  linkgit:git-log[1], which can do this in a single process).
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git rev-list HEAD |
git diff-tree --stdin --format=medium -p
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* Print the list of commits on the current branch that touched any
  file in the `Documentation` directory.
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git rev-list HEAD -- Documentation/
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* Print the list of commits authored by you in the past year, on
  any branch, tag, or other ref.
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git rev-list --author=you@example.com --since=1.year.ago --all
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* Print the list of objects reachable from the current branch (i.e., all
  commits and the blobs and trees they contain).
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git rev-list --objects HEAD
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GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite