git_history: View commit history

In gert: Simple Git Client for R

View commit history

Description

• git_commit_stats() returns information about commit insertion and deletion

• git_commit_info() a list of commit info

• git_commit_id() is a shortcut for git_commit_info()$id

• git_log() shows the most recent commits

• git_ls() lists all the files that are being tracked in the repository.

• git_stat_files() shows information of when files was last modified.

Usage

git_commit_info(ref = "HEAD", repo = ".")

git_commit_id(ref = "HEAD", repo = ".")

git_commit_stats(ref = "HEAD", repo = ".")

git_log(ref = "HEAD", max = 100, after = NULL, path = NULL, repo = ".")

git_stat_files(files, ref = "HEAD", max = NULL, repo = ".")

Arguments

ref	revision string with a branch/tag/commit value
repo	The path to the git repository. If the directory is not a repository, parent directories are considered (see git_find()). To disable this search, provide the filepath protected with I(). When using this parameter, always explicitly call by name (i.e. ⁠repo = ⁠) because future versions of gert may have additional parameters.
max	lookup at most latest n parent commits
after	date or timestamp: only include commits starting this date
path	character vector with paths to filter on; only commits that touch these paths are included
files	vector of paths relative to the git root directory. Use "." to stage all changed files.

Value

• git_commit_info() and git_commit_stats() return a list.

Related libgit2 documentation

commit.

See Also

Other git: git_archive, git_branch(), git_commit(), git_config(), git_diff(), git_fetch(), git_ignore, git_merge(), git_rebase(), git_remote, git_repo, git_reset(), git_restore(), git_revert(), git_signature(), git_stash, git_tag, git_worktree

gert documentation built on July 22, 2026, 5:07 p.m.