GIT-COMMIT-GRAPH(1) Git Manual GIT-COMMIT-GRAPH(1) NAME git-commit-graph - Write and verify Git commit-graph files SYNOPSIS git commit-graph verify [--object-dir ] [--shallow] [--[no-]progress] git commit-graph write [--object-dir ] [--append] [--split[=]] [--reachable | --stdin-packs | --stdin-commits] [--changed-paths] [--[no-]max-new-filters ] [--[no-]progress] DESCRIPTION Manage the serialized commit-graph file. OPTIONS --object-dir Use given directory for the location of packfiles and commit-graph file. This parameter exists to specify the location of an alternate that only has the objects directory, not a full .git directory. The commit-graph file is expected to be in the /info directory and the packfiles are expected to be in /pack. If the directory could not be made into an absolute path, or does not match any known object di- rectory, git commit-graph ... will exit with non-zero status. --progress, --no-progress Turn progress on/off explicitly. If neither is specified, progress is shown if standard error is connected to a terminal. COMMANDS write Write a commit-graph file based on the commits found in packfiles. If the config option core.commitGraph is disabled, then this command will output a warning, then return success without writing a commit-graph file. With the --stdin-packs option, generate the new commit graph by walking objects only in the specified pack-indexes. (Cannot be combined with --stdin-commits or --reachable.) With the --stdin-commits option, generate the new commit graph by walk- ing commits starting at the commits specified in stdin as a list of OIDs in hex, one OID per line. OIDs that resolve to non-commits (either directly, or by peeling tags) are silently ignored. OIDs that are mal- formed, or do not exist generate an error. (Cannot be combined with --stdin-packs or --reachable.) With the --reachable option, generate the new commit graph by walking commits starting at all refs. (Cannot be combined with --stdin-commits or --stdin-packs.) With the --append option, include all commits that are present in the existing commit-graph file. With the --changed-paths option, compute and write information about the paths changed between a commit and its first parent. This operation can take a while on large repositories. It provides significant perfor- mance gains for getting history of a directory or a file with git log -- . If this option is given, future commit-graph writes will au- tomatically assume that this option was intended. Use --no-changed-paths to stop storing this data. --changed-paths is im- plied by config commitGraph.changedPaths=true. With the --max-new-filters= option, generate at most n new Bloom filters (if --changed-paths is specified). If n is -1, no limit is en- forced. Only commits present in the new layer count against this limit. To retroactively compute Bloom filters over earlier layers, it is ad- vised to use --split=replace. Overrides the commitGraph.maxNewFilters configuration. With the --split[=] option, write the commit-graph as a chain of multiple commit-graph files stored in /info/commit-graphs. Com- mit-graph layers are merged based on the strategy and other splitting options. The new commits not already in the commit-graph are added in a new "tip" file. This file is merged with the existing file if the fol- lowing merge conditions are met: * If --split=no-merge is specified, a merge is never performed, and the remaining options are ignored. --split=replace overwrites the existing chain with a new one. A bare --split defers to the remain- ing options. (Note that merging a chain of commit graphs replaces the existing chain with a length-1 chain where the first and only incremental holds the entire graph). * If --size-multiple= is not specified, let X equal 2. If the new tip file would have N commits and the previous tip has M commits and X times N is greater than M, instead merge the two files into a single file. * If --max-commits= is specified with M a positive integer, and the new tip file would have more than M commits, then instead merge the new tip with the previous tip. Finally, if --expire-time= is not specified, let datetime be the current time. After writing the split commit-graph, delete all unused commit-graph whose modified times are older than date- time. verify Read the commit-graph file and verify its contents against the object database. Used to check for corrupted data. With the --shallow option, only check the tip commit-graph file in a chain of split commit-graphs. EXAMPLES * Write a commit-graph file for the packed commits in your local .git di- rectory. $ git commit-graph write * Write a commit-graph file, extending the current commit-graph file us- ing commits in . $ echo | git commit-graph write --stdin-packs * Write a commit-graph file containing all reachable commits. $ git show-ref -s | git commit-graph write --stdin-commits * Write a commit-graph file containing all commits in the current com- mit-graph file along with those reachable from HEAD. $ git rev-parse HEAD | git commit-graph write --stdin-commits --append CAVEATS The existence of replace objects or commit grafts turns off reading or writing to the commit-graph. See git-replace(1). CONFIGURATION Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from the git-config(1) documentation. The content is the same as what's found there: commitGraph.generationVersion Specifies the type of generation number version to use when writing or reading the commit-graph file. If version 1 is specified, then the cor- rected commit dates will not be written or read. Defaults to 2. commitGraph.maxNewFilters Specifies the default value for the --max-new-filters option of git commit-graph write (c.f., git-commit-graph(1)). commitGraph.changedPaths If true, then git commit-graph write will compute and write changed-path Bloom filters by default, equivalent to passing --changed-paths. If false or unset, changed-paths Bloom filters will be written during git commit-graph write only if the filters already exist in the current commit-graph file. This matches the default behavior of git commit-graph write without any --[no-]changed-paths option. To rewrite a commit-graph file without any filters, use the --no-changed-paths option. Command-line option --[no-]changed-paths al- ways takes precedence over this configuration. Defaults to unset. commitGraph.readChangedPaths Deprecated. Equivalent to commitGraph.changedPathsVersion=-1 if true, and commitGraph.changedPathsVersion=0 if false. (If commit- Graph.changedPathVersion is also set, commitGraph.changedPathsVersion takes precedence.) commitGraph.changedPathsVersion Specifies the version of the changed-path Bloom filters that Git will read and write. May be -1, 0, 1, or 2. Note that values greater than 1 may be incompatible with older versions of Git which do not yet under- stand those versions. Use caution when operating in a mixed-version en- vironment. Defaults to -1. If -1, Git will use the version of the changed-path Bloom filters in the repository, defaulting to 1 if there are none. If 0, Git will not read any Bloom filters, and will write version 1 Bloom filters when instructed to write. If 1, Git will only read version 1 Bloom filters, and will write ver- sion 1 Bloom filters. If 2, Git will only read version 2 Bloom filters, and will write ver- sion 2 Bloom filters. See git-commit-graph(1) for more information. FILE FORMAT see gitformat-commit-graph(5). GIT Part of the git(1) suite Git 2.55.0 2026-06-29 GIT-COMMIT-GRAPH(1)