Getting log history
===================

Crawling manually commits and parents to browse history is surely a good
solution. But when it comes to ordering them or aggregate them from multiple
branches, we tend to use ``git log``.

To get a *Log* object from a repository:

.. code-block:: php

    $log = $repository->getLog();

You can pass four arguments to *getLog* method:

.. code-block:: php

    // Global log for repository
    $log = $repository->getLog();

    // Log for master branch
    $log = $repository->getLog('master');

    // Returns last 10 commits on README file
    $log = $repository->getLog('master', 'README', 0, 10);

    // Returns last 10 commits on README or UPGRADE files
    $log = $repository->getLog('master', array('README', 'UPGRADE'), 0, 10);

Counting
--------

If you want to count overall commits, without offset or limit, use the *countCommits* method:

.. code-block:: php

    echo sprintf("This log contains %s commits\n", $log->countCommits());

    // Countable interface
    echo sprintf("This log contains %s commits\n", count($log));

Offset and limit
----------------

Use those methods:

.. code-block:: php

    $log->setOffset(32);
    $log->setLimit(40);

    // or read it:
    $log->getOffset();
    $log->getLimit();