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Administration
Plumbing Commands
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2.56.0
2026-09-28
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2.55.0
2026-06-29
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2.54.0
2026-04-20
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2.53.0
2026-02-02
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2.52.0
2025-11-17
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2.51.1
2025-10-15
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2.51.0
2025-08-18
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2.49.0
2025-03-14
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2.48.0
2025-01-10
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2.46.0
2024-07-29
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2.45.3
2024-11-26
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2.45.0
2024-04-29
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2.44.0
2024-02-23
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2.43.0
2023-11-20
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2.42.1
2023-11-02
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2.42.0
2023-08-21
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2.41.0
2023-06-01
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2.40.0
2023-03-12
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2.36.0
2022-04-18
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2.35.0
2022-01-24
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2.33.2
2022-03-23
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2.33.1
2021-10-12
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2.33.0
2021-08-16
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2.32.0
2021-06-06
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2.31.0
2021-03-15
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2.30.0
2020-12-27
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2.29.0
2020-10-19
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2.28.0
2020-07-27
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2.27.0
2020-06-01
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2.26.0
2020-03-22
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2.25.1
2020-02-17
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2.25.0
2020-01-13
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2.24.0
2019-11-04
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2.22.0
2019-06-07
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2.21.0
2019-02-24
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2.20.0
2018-12-09
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2.19.0
2018-09-10
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2.18.0
2018-06-21
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2.17.0
2018-04-02
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2.16.6
2019-12-06
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2.15.4
2019-12-06
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2.14.6
2019-12-06
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2.13.7
2018-05-22
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2.12.5
2017-09-22
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2.11.4
2017-09-22
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2.10.5
2017-09-22
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2.9.5
2017-07-30
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2.8.6
2017-07-30
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2.6.7
2017-05-05
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2.5.6
2017-05-05
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2.4.12
2017-05-05
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2.2.3
2015-09-04
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2.1.4
2014-12-17
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2.0.5
2014-12-17
DESCRIPTION
Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by git diff-tree --cc.
For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to git ls-tree with --name-only).
For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
The command takes options applicable to the git diff-tree command to control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
OPTIONS
- <object>…
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The names of objects to show (defaults to HEAD). For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitrevisions[7].
- --pretty[=<format>]
- --format=<format>
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Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format, where <format> can be one of oneline, short, medium, full, fuller, reference, email, raw, format:<string> and tformat:<string>. When <format> is none of the above, and has %placeholder in it, it acts as if --pretty=tformat:<format> were given.
See the "PRETTY FORMATS" section for some additional details for each format. When =<format> part is omitted, it defaults to medium.
Note: you can specify the default pretty format in the repository configuration (see git-config[1]).
- --abbrev-commit
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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.
- --no-abbrev-commit
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Show the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object name. This negates
--abbrev-commit, either explicit or implied by other options such as "--oneline". It also overrides thelog.abbrevCommitvariable. - --oneline
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This is a shorthand for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit" used together.
- --encoding=<encoding>
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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 preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this defaults to UTF-8. Note that if an object claims to be encoded in
Xand we are outputting inX, we will output the object verbatim; this means that invalid sequences in the original commit may be copied to the output. - --expand-tabs=<n>
- --expand-tabs
- --no-expand-tabs
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Perform a tab expansion (replace each tab with enough spaces to fill to the next display column that is multiple of <n>) in the log message before showing it in the output.
--expand-tabsis a short-hand for--expand-tabs=8, and--no-expand-tabsis a short-hand for--expand-tabs=0, which disables tab expansion.By default, tabs are expanded in pretty formats that indent the log message by 4 spaces (i.e. medium, which is the default,