git-show-branch
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Name
git-show-branch - Show branches and their commits
Synopsis
git show-branch [-a|--all] [-r|--remotes] [--topo-order | --date-order]
[--current] [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [--sparse]
[--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base]
[--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics]
[(<rev> | <glob>)...]
git show-branch (-g|--reflog)[=<n>[,<base>]] [--list] [<ref>]
Description
Git Manual GIT-SHOW-BRANCH(1)
NAME
git-show-branch - Show branches and their commits
SYNOPSIS
git show-branch [-a|--all] [-r|--remotes] [--topo-order | --date-order]
[--current] [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [--sparse]
[--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base]
[--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics]
[(<rev> | <glob>)...]
git show-branch (-g|--reflog)[=<n>[,<base>]] [--list] [<ref>]
DESCRIPTION
Shows the commit ancestry graph starting from the commits
named with <rev>s or <globs>s (or all refs under refs/heads
and/or refs/tags) semi-visually.
It cannot show more than 29 branches and commits at a time.
It uses showbranch.default multi-valued configuration items
if no <rev> nor <glob> is given on the command line.
OPTIONS
<rev>
Arbitrary extended SHA1 expression (see gitrevisions(5))
that typically names a branch head or a tag.
<glob>
A glob pattern that matches branch or tag names under
refs/. For example, if you have many topic branches
under refs/heads/topic, giving topic/* would show all of
them.
-r, --remotes
Show the remote-tracking branches.
-a, --all
Show both remote-tracking branches and local branches.
--current
With this option, the command includes the current
branch to the list of revs to be shown when it is not
given on the command line.
--topo-order
By default, the branches and their commits are shown in
reverse chronological order. This option makes them
appear in topological order (i.e., descendant commits
are shown before their parents).
--date-order
This option is similar to --topo-order in the sense that
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no parent comes before all of its children, but
otherwise commits are ordered according to their commit
date.
--sparse
By default, the output omits merges that are reachable
from only one tip being shown. This option makes them
visible.
--more=<n>
Usually the command stops output upon showing the commit
that is the common ancestor of all the branches. This
flag tells the command to go <n> more common commits
beyond that. When <n> is negative, display only the
<reference>s given, without showing the commit ancestry
tree.
--list
Synonym to --more=-1
--merge-base
Instead of showing the commit list, determine possible
merge bases for the specified commits. All merge bases
will be contained in all specified commits. This is
different from how git-merge-base(1) handles the case of
three or more commits.
--independent
Among the <reference>s given, display only the ones that
cannot be reached from any other <reference>.
--no-name
Do not show naming strings for each commit.
--sha1-name
Instead of naming the commits using the path to reach
them from heads (e.g. "master~2" to mean the grandparent
of "master"), name them with the unique prefix of their
object names.
--topics
Shows only commits that are NOT on the first branch
given. This helps track topic branches by hiding any
commit that is already in the main line of development.
When given "git show-branch --topics master topic1
topic2", this will show the revisions given by "git
rev-list ^master topic1 topic2"
-g, --reflog[=<n>[,<base>]] [<ref>]
Shows <n> most recent ref-log entries for the given ref.
If <base> is given, <n> entries going back from that
entry. <base> can be specified as count or date. When no
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explicit <ref> parameter is given, it defaults to the
current branch (or HEAD if it is detached).
--color[=<when>]
Color the status sign (one of these: * ! + -) of each
commit corresponding to the branch it's in. The value
must be always (the default), never, or auto.
--no-color
Turn off colored output, even when the configuration
file gives the default to color output. Same as
--color=never.
Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base
options are mutually exclusive.
OUTPUT
Given N <references>, the first N lines are the one-line
description from their commit message. The branch head that
is pointed at by $GIT_DIR/HEAD is prefixed with an asterisk
* character while other heads are prefixed with a !
character.
Following these N lines, one-line log for each commit is
displayed, indented N places. If a commit is on the I-th
branch, the I-th indentation character shows a + sign;
otherwise it shows a space. Merge commits are denoted by a -
sign. Each commit shows a short name that can be used as an
extended SHA1 to name that commit.
The following example shows three branches, "master",
"fixes" and "mhf":
$ git show-branch master fixes mhf
* [master] Add 'git show-branch'.
! [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset"
! [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching.
---
+ [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching.
+ [mhf~1] Use git-octopus when pulling more than one heads.
+ [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset"
+ [mhf~2] "git fetch --force".
+ [mhf~3] Use .git/remote/origin, not .git/branches/origin.
+ [mhf~4] Make "git pull" and "git fetch" default to origin
+ [mhf~5] Infamous 'octopus merge'
+ [mhf~6] Retire git-parse-remote.
+ [mhf~7] Multi-head fetch.
+ [mhf~8] Start adding the $GIT_DIR/remotes/ support.
*++ [master] Add 'git show-branch'.
These three branches all forked from a common commit,
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[master], whose commit message is "Add 'git show-branch'".
The "fixes" branch adds one commit "Introduce "reset type"
flag to "git reset"". The "mhf" branch adds many other
commits. The current branch is "master".
EXAMPLE
If you keep your primary branches immediately under
refs/heads, and topic branches in subdirectories of it,
having the following in the configuration file may help:
[showbranch]
default = --topo-order
default = heads/*
With this, git show-branch without extra parameters would
show only the primary branches. In addition, if you happen
to be on your topic branch, it is shown as well.
$ git show-branch --reflog="10,1 hour ago" --list master
shows 10 reflog entries going back from the tip as of 1 hour
ago. Without --list, the output also shows how these tips
are topologically related with each other.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://git-
core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
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