git-log-as-object

The git-log-as-object module allows for the asynchronous gathering of commit metadata for any range of commits within a local git repository.

Usage

gitLog(options?: Options): Promise<Commit[]>

Asynchronously fetches the metadata of all commits within a particular reference range.

Parameters

• options: An object containing optional arguments to the function. See "Options Parameter" below.

Return

A Promise for an array of Commit objects containing the metadata of each commit in the range. (See Commit Format below.)

gitLogSync(options?: Options): Commit[]

Synchronously fetches the metadata of all commits within a particular reference range.

Parameters

• options: An object containing optional arguments to the function. See "Options Parameter" below.

Return

An array of Commit objects containing the metadata of each commit in the range. (See Commit Format below.)

Options Parameter

The Options object has the following properties, all of which may be undefined:

• dir: The path to the root directory of a git repository. Defaults to process.cwd().
• startRef: A reference string, such as a commit hash or tag name, which designates the beginning of the range (exclusive.) If not defined, all ancestors of endRef will be listed.
• endRef: A reference string, such as a commit hash or tag name, which designates the end of the range (inclusive.) If not defined, endRef will be assumed to be 'HEAD'.
• includeKeys: An optional array of strings which, if given, specify additional properties to include in the resulting object. (See Commit Format section below.) Note that requesting additional properties, particularly diff, may impose an undesirable performance penalty; in general, only properties which will actually be used should be included.

Commit Format

The Commit object returned by these functions has all of the properties marked as "default" below, plus any additional properties in this list whose names are passed to the includeKeys parameter. For more information on each of these properties, see the git-log documentation.

| property | default? | type | equivalent format tokens | |---------------------|----------|--------------------------------|---------------------------| | fullHash | yes | string | %H | | partialHash | yes | string | %h | | author | yes | Person (see below) | %an, %ae | | authorTime | yes | JavaScript Date Object | %at, etc. | | committer | yes | Person (see below) | %cn, %ce | | commitTime | yes | JavaScript Date Object | %ct, etc. | | subject | yes | string | %s | | body | yes | string | %b | | tags | yes | string[] | %d/%D (see below) | | refs | | string[] | %d/%D (see below) | | diff | | GitDiff (see below) | n/a | | fullBody | | string | %B | | treeHash | | string | %T | | partialTreeHash | | string | %t | | parentHashes | | string[] | %P | | partialParentHashes | | string[] | %p | | notes | | string | %N | | gpgKey | | string | %GK | | gpgSigner | | Person or null (see below) | %GS | | gpgStatus | | string (G, B, E, etc...) | %G? |

Person

A Person object has only two properties, name and email, corresponding to the person's name and e-mail address.

GitDiff

A GitDiff object has the following properties, each of which is a Set of strings containing relative paths to files in the repository.

• added: new files added by the commit, as well as the destination of files moved with git mv
• deleted: existing files deleted by the commit, as well as the source of files moved with git mv
• modified: existing files whose contents were modified by the commit
• touched: all paths matching any of these three criteria

'tags' vs. 'refs'

The tags and refs properties of a Commit are both based on the output of %D, but are filtered to separate git tags from other refs (like HEAD, origin/HEAD, and branch names.) The tags property is included by default; if you need access to non-tag refs as well, you can specify 'refs' in the includeKeys parameter.

gpgSigner

One important caveat if you are relying on the gpgSigner attribute is that it will ONLY be set if the signer's public key is in your GPG keyring. If the commit is signed, but the public key is unknown, or if the commit is unsigned, the gpgSigner attribute will always be null.

License

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