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diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt index 7f8d9a5b5f..2e3e96f663 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git for-each-ref' [--count=<count>] [--shell|--perl|--python|--tcl] [(--sort=<key>)...] [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...] + [--points-at <object>] [(--merged | --no-merged) [<object>]] + [--contains [<object>]] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -62,6 +64,20 @@ OPTIONS the specified host language. This is meant to produce a scriptlet that can directly be `eval`ed. +--points-at <object>:: + Only list refs which points at the given object. + +--merged [<object>]:: + Only list refs whose tips are reachable from the + specified commit (HEAD if not specified). + +--no-merged [<object>]:: + Only list refs whose tips are not reachable from the + specified commit (HEAD if not specified). + +--contains [<object>]:: + Only list tags which contain the specified commit (HEAD if not + specified). FIELD NAMES ----------- @@ -76,7 +92,11 @@ refname:: The name of the ref (the part after $GIT_DIR/). For a non-ambiguous short name of the ref append `:short`. The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict - abbreviation mode. + abbreviation mode. If `strip=<N>` is appended, strips `<N>` + slash-separated path components from the front of the refname + (e.g., `%(refname:strip=2)` turns `refs/tags/foo` into `foo`. + `<N>` must be a positive integer. If a displayed ref has fewer + components than `<N>`, the command aborts with an error. objecttype:: The type of the object (`blob`, `tree`, `commit`, `tag`). @@ -111,10 +131,26 @@ color:: Change output color. Followed by `:<colorname>`, where names are described in `color.branch.*`. +align:: + Left-, middle-, or right-align the content between + %(align:...) and %(end). The "align:" is followed by `<width>` + and `<position>` in any order separated by a comma, where the + `<position>` is either left, right or middle, default being + left and `<width>` is the total length of the content with + alignment. If the contents length is more than the width then + no alignment is performed. If used with '--quote' everything + in between %(align:...) and %(end) is quoted, but if nested + then only the topmost level performs quoting. + In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can be used to specify the value in the header field. +For commit and tag objects, the special `creatordate` and `creator` +fields will correspond to the appropriate date or name-email-date tuple +from the `committer` or `tagger` fields depending on the object type. +These are intended for working on a mix of annotated and lightweight tags. + Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`, `committer`, and `tagger`) can be suffixed with `name`, `email`, and `date` to extract the named component. @@ -123,20 +159,23 @@ The complete message in a commit and tag object is `contents`. Its first line is `contents:subject`, where subject is the concatenation of all lines of the commit message up to the first blank line. The next line is 'contents:body', where body is all of the lines after the first -blank line. Finally, the optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`. +blank line. The optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`. The +first `N` lines of the message is obtained using `contents:lines=N`. -For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric -order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`). +For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric order +(`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `creatordate`, `taggerdate`). All other fields are used to sort in their byte-value order. +There is also an option to sort by versions, this can be done by using +the fieldname `version:refname` or its alias `v:refname`. + In any case, a field name that refers to a field inapplicable to the object referred by the ref does not cause an error. It returns an empty string instead. As a special case for the date-type fields, you may specify a format for -the date by adding one of `:default`, `:relative`, `:short`, `:local`, -`:iso8601`, `:rfc2822` or `:raw` to the end of the fieldname; e.g. -`%(taggerdate:relative)`. +the date by adding `:` followed by date format name (see the +values the `--date` option to linkgit::git-rev-list[1] takes). EXAMPLES |