Git revisions cheatsheet

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 checkout v2^{}	checkout the v2 tag (not v2 branch)

The 3rd argument in each of these commands is a gitrevision. These gitrevisions can be passed to many Git commands.

Reference	Description
git show dae68e1	sha1
git show HEAD	reference
git show v1.0.0	tag
git show master	local branch
git show origin/master	remote branch
git show master~2	2 commits back from master
git show master..fix	reachable from fix but not master
git show master...fix	reachable from fix and master, but not both

These are just the common ones, there’s a lot more below! (These work in many other commands, not just git show.)

git checkout dae68e1

sha1

Example	Description
git checkout HEAD	reference
git checkout master	branch
git checkout v1.0.0	tag
git checkout origin/master	aka, refs/remotes/origin/master
git checkout heads/master	aka, refs/heads/master

Example	Description
git checkout master@{yesterday}	also 1 day ago, etc
git checkout master@{2}	2nd prior value
git checkout master@{push}	where master would push to
git checkout master^	parent commit
git checkout master^2	2nd parent, eg, what it merged
git checkout master~5	5 parents back
git checkout master^0	this commit; disambiguates from tags
git checkout v0.99.8^{tag}	can be commit, tag, tree, object
git checkout v0.99.8^{}	defaults to {tag}
git checkout ":/fix bug"	searches commit messages

HEAD:README	…
0:README	(0 to 3) …

git log master	reachable parents from master
git log ^master	exclude reachable parents from master
git log master..fix	reachable from fix but not master
git log master...fix	reachable from fix and master, but not both
git log HEAD^@	parents of HEAD
git log HEAD^!	HEAD, then excluding parents’s ancestors
git log HEAD^{:/fix}	search previous HEADs matching criteria

A ─┬─ E ── F ── G   master
   │
   └─ B ── C ── D   fix

git log master..fix	BCD
git log master...fix	BCD and EFG

• Git Tools - Revision Selection (git-scm.com)
• gitrevisions(7) (kernel.org)