显示所有最近的 git 提交，无论它们是否属于本地签出分支

Question

Let's say I have a git repo with various branches. If I do

git log --oneline | head

I will see a list of the latest commits on the current branch. If I do

git log --branches=* --oneline | head

I will see a list of the latest commits on any locally checked-out branch. But what should I do to see a list of all the latest commits, whether or not they are on any locally checked-out branch? As far as I can tell, this isn't a matter of the commits only existing on the remote, because I can do eg

git checkout <hash>

and see the contents of the commit; it's just that if I then check out master again, I cannot get it to show up in git log .

Answer 1

By default, git log starts with the currently checked out commit (called HEAD) and works back through its history from there.

I believe you want --all .

Pretend as if all the refs in refs/, along with HEAD, are listed on the command line as.

So if you have branch1, branch2, origin/branch1, origin/branch2, tag1, tag2 git log --all is equivalent to git log branch1 branch2 origin/branch1 origin/branch2 tag1 tag2 HEAD .

If all you want to see is the commits in chronological order, that's enough. If you'd like to see how they relate add --graph to show their connections and --decorate to show references (tags and branches).