cheatsheets/git-revisions.md

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title: Git revisions
category: Git
layout: 2017/sheet
updated: 2017-10-11
description: ""
intro: |
A list of revision specifications you can use with `git log` and many other Git commands. Summarized from `man gitrevisions`.
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### Example usages
```bash
git log master...develop # inspect differences in branches
git rebase -i HEAD~3 # rebase last 3 commits
git reset --hard HEAD@{2} # undo last operation that changed HEAD
git show ":/fix bug" # search commit with regex
git checkout v2^{} # checkout the `v2` tag (not `v2` branch)
```
The 3rd argument in each of these commands is a `gitrevision`.
### Common git revisions
| Reference | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `dae68e1` | sha1 |
| `HEAD` | reference |
| `v1.0.0` | tag |
| --- | --- |
| `master` | local branch |
| `origin/master` | remote branch |
| --- | --- |
| `master~2` | 2 commits back from master |
| --- | --- |
| `master..fix` | reachable from *fix* but not *master* |
| `master...fix` | reachable from *fix* and *master*, but not both |
These are just the common ones, there's a lot more below!
## Reference
### Commits
| `dae68e1` | sha1 |
### References
| `HEAD` | reference |
| `master` | branch |
| `v1.0.0` | tag |
| `origin/master` | aka, *refs/remotes/origin/master* |
| `heads/master` | aka, *refs/heads/master* |
### Searching back
| `master@{yesterday}` | also *1 day ago*, etc |
| `master@{2}` | 2nd prior value |
| `master@{push}` | where *master* would push to |
| `master^` | parent commit |
| `master^2` | 2nd parent, eg, what it merged |
| `master~5` | 5 parents back |
| `master^0` | this commit; disambiguates from tags |
| `v0.99.8^{tag}` | can be *commit*, *tag*, *tree*, *object* |
| `v0.99.8^{}` | defaults to *{tag}* |
| `:/fix bug` | searches commit messages |
### Other
| `HEAD:README` | ... |
| `0:README` | (0 to 3) ... |
## Ranges
### Ranges
| `master` | reachable parents from master |
| `^master` | exclude reachable parents from master |
| `master..fix` | reachable from *fix* but not *master* |
| `master...fix` | reachable from *fix* and *master*, but not both |
| `HEAD^@` | parents of *HEAD* |
| `HEAD^!` | *HEAD*, then excluding parents's ancestors |
| `HEAD^{:/fix}` | search previous *HEAD*s matching criteria |
### Ranges illustration
```nohighlight
A ─┬─ E ── F ── G master
└─ B ── C ── D fix
```
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| `master..fix` | BCD |
| `master...fix` | BCD and EFG |