leaves

vb leaves [OPTIONS]

Description

Find leaves of all branches. By default show only open leaves. The -a|--all flag causes all leaves (closed and open) to be shown. The -c|--closed flag shows only closed leaves.

The --recompute flag causes the content of the leaf table in the repository database to be recomputed.

Options

-a, --all

Show ALL leaves

--bybranch

Order output by branch name

-c, --closed

Show only closed leaves

-m, --multiple

Show only cases with multiple leaves on a single branch

--recompute

Recompute the leaf table in the repository DB

-W, --width N

Width of lines (default is to auto-detect). Must be more than 39 or else 0 no limit, resulting in a single line per entry.

Examples

  • Init and open a repository

$ vb init leaves_repo.vbyte
project-id: e34557a6b6bfcd22ae8fd8dab21630896ac31d7e
server-id:  c7f60f7a478dc5c12abf6ed83121a3e0b9c5f97b
admin-user: ubuntu (initial remote-access password is "7uWy9HpPMo")
$ vb open -f leaves_repo.vbyte
project-name: <unnamed>
repository:   /tmp/sphinx_tests/57e1b844/leaves_repo/leaves_repo.vbyte
local-root:   /tmp/sphinx_tests/57e1b844/leaves_repo/
config-db:    /tmp/sphinx_tests/57e1b844/.visionbyte
project-code: e34557a6b6bfcd22ae8fd8dab21630896ac31d7e
checkout:     b9f5bf9fc8606a5cafd83090c73027745983e0e6 2026-03-31 13:00:24 UTC
tags:         trunk
comment:      initial empty check-in (user: ubuntu)
check-ins:    1

  • Create a base check-in and tag it

$ vb sys echo "start" > a.txt
$ vb add a.txt
ADDED  a.txt
$ vb ci -m "base" --tag base
Committed version: 23ec7352267f32a8707e95d4a5b2aad65f283a6c3d2feff674664288bd188349

  • Add a new leaf on trunk

$ vb sys echo "trunk" >> a.txt
$ vb ci -m "work on trunk"
Committed version: e5a47cd44d0d5295ff448a6a94ecf6f24c2931e77703cd6b184d91e72ac4cfcd

  • Return to the tagged base check-in and create another branch leaf

$ vb checkout base
a.txt

$ vb sys echo "feature" > b.txt
$ vb add b.txt
ADDED  b.txt
$ vb ci -m "work on feature" --branch feature/a
Committed version: 93fcfb74563609af111bac44a8edf1fbdae6f834ef11920f5a3a3e7a8036f8d4

  • List open leaves across all branches

$ vb leaves
   (1) 2026-03-31 13:00:25 [93fcfb7456] work on feature (user: ubuntu tags: feature/a) (branched from: [23ec735226])
   (2) 2026-03-31 13:00:25 [e5a47cd44d] work on trunk (user: ubuntu tags: trunk)

See Also

See also

descendants, finfo, info, branch