List commits that are reachable by following the parent links
from the given commit(s), but exclude commits that are reachable
from the one(s) given with a ^ in front of them. The output is
given in reverse chronological order by default.
You can think of this as a set operation. Commits reachable from
any of the commits given on the command line form a set, and then
commits reachable from any of the ones given with ^ in front are
subtracted from that set. The remaining commits are what comes
out in the command's output. Various other options and paths
parameters can be used to further limit the result.
Thus, the following command:
$ git rev-list foo bar ^baz
means "list all the commits which are reachable from foo or bar,
but not from baz".
A special notation "<commit1>..<commit2>" can be used as a
short-hand for "^<commit1> <commit2>". For example, either of the
following may be used interchangeably:
$ git rev-list origin..HEAD
$ git rev-list HEAD ^origin
Another special notation is "<commit1>...<commit2>" which is
useful for merges. The resulting set of commits is the symmetric
difference between the two operands. The following two commands
are equivalent:
$ git rev-list A B --not $(git merge-base --all A B)
$ git rev-list A...B
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.
