How to list commits since certain commit?
GitGit Problem Overview
Is there anyway to get a list of commits from a given commit number to HEAD?
I know this is possible by the commit date, but I need it by the commit number and I can't seem to find any documentation, or even if this is possible.
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
git rev-list <since_hash>..HEAD
or to include the commit:
git rev-list <since_hash>^..HEAD
You can use git log instead of git rev-list as well to get additional details.
Solution 2 - Git
git log <hash>..
Is the least amount of typing. Omitting "HEAD" assumes that's what you meant. Rev-list would work too.
Solution 3 - Git
You can run the following git command from the shell:
git log --pretty=oneline commit-id...HEAD
Solution 4 - Git
Assuming that by "commit number", you mean commit hash:
git log <commit-hash>..HEAD
Solution 5 - Git
If anyone here is trying to find out how to LESS through the output of git log starting at a certain commit, paginating backward, it's as simple as git log <hash>.
Solution 6 - Git
As others have said, git log <commit-hash>..HEAD gets you started. git log <commit-hash>...HEAD is also suggested. I'm adding this answer because the number of periods can make a huge difference for diffs, so it may be worth understanding for git log also.
I don't understand it enough to explain it for git log behavior. For git diff branchA..branchB, the two-dot operator compares the files etc on branchB's tip to the state of files etc on branchA's tip. The three-dot operator compares the files etc on branchB's tip to the files etc in branchA at the commit where branchB diverged from branchA.
To me, this distinction can be important because three-dot might not show that similar changes were already made by some separate branch that got merged. i.e. the diff on a pull request might not show the current context of a patch to a function, if the function has changed since the branch diverged.
As an aside, GitHub, implicitly, uses a three-dot comparison on Pull Requests. GitHub Enterprise also uses three-dot. As of writing this, there is a way to see how to do a two dot comparison in github on the linked pages.