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+git-rev-list(1)
+===============
+
+NAME
+----
+git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'git rev-list' [<options>] <commit>... [--] [<path>...]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+
+: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
+-------
+
+:git-rev-list: 1
+include::rev-list-options.txt[]
+
+include::pretty-formats.txt[]
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+* Print the list of commits reachable from the current branch.
++
+----------
+git rev-list HEAD
+----------
+
+* Print the list of commits on this branch, but not present in the
+ upstream branch.
++
+----------
+git rev-list @{upstream}..HEAD
+----------
+
+* Format commits with their author and commit message (see also the
+ porcelain linkgit:git-log[1]).
++
+----------
+git rev-list --format=medium HEAD
+----------
+
+* Format commits along with their diffs (see also the porcelain
+ linkgit:git-log[1], which can do this in a single process).
++
+----------
+git rev-list HEAD |
+git diff-tree --stdin --format=medium -p
+----------
+
+* Print the list of commits on the current branch that touched any
+ file in the `Documentation` directory.
++
+----------
+git rev-list HEAD -- Documentation/
+----------
+
+* Print the list of commits authored by you in the past year, on
+ any branch, tag, or other ref.
++
+----------
+git rev-list --author=you@example.com --since=1.year.ago --all
+----------
+
+* Print the list of objects reachable from the current branch (i.e., all
+ commits and the blobs and trees they contain).
++
+----------
+git rev-list --objects HEAD
+----------
+
+* Compare the disk size of all reachable objects, versus those
+ reachable from reflogs, versus the total packed size. This can tell
+ you whether running `git repack -ad` might reduce the repository size
+ (by dropping unreachable objects), and whether expiring reflogs might
+ help.
++
+----------
+# reachable objects
+git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all
+# plus reflogs
+git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all --reflog
+# total disk size used
+du -c .git/objects/pack/*.pack .git/objects/??/*
+# alternative to du: add up "size" and "size-pack" fields
+git count-objects -v
+----------
+
+* Report the disk size of each branch, not including objects used by the
+ current branch. This can find outliers that are contributing to a
+ bloated repository size (e.g., because somebody accidentally committed
+ large build artifacts).
++
+----------
+git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' |
+while read branch
+do
+ size=$(git rev-list --disk-usage --objects HEAD..$branch)
+ echo "$size $branch"
+done |
+sort -n
+----------
+
+* Compare the on-disk size of branches in one group of refs, excluding
+ another. If you co-mingle objects from multiple remotes in a single
+ repository, this can show which remotes are contributing to the
+ repository size (taking the size of `origin` as a baseline).
++
+----------
+git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --remotes=$suspect --not --remotes=origin
+----------
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite