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<refentry id="flatpak-history">

    <refentryinfo>
        <title>flatpak history</title>
        <productname>flatpak</productname>

        <authorgroup>
            <author>
                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
                <firstname>Matthias</firstname>
                <surname>Clasen</surname>
                <email>mclasen@redhat.com</email>
            </author>
        </authorgroup>
    </refentryinfo>

    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>flatpak history</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>

    <refnamediv>
        <refname>flatpak-history</refname>
        <refpurpose>Show history</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>

    <refsynopsisdiv>
            <cmdsynopsis>
                <command>flatpak history</command>
                <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTION</arg>
            </cmdsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Description</title>

        <para>
            Shows changes to the flatpak installations on the system. This includes
            installs, updates and removals of applications and runtimes.
        </para>
        <para>
            By default, both per-user and system-wide installations are shown. Use the
            <option>--user</option>, <option>--installation</option> or <option>--system</option> options to change this.
        </para>
        <para>
            The information for the history command is taken from the systemd journal,
            and can also be accessed using e.g. the journalctl command.
        </para>

    </refsect1>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Options</title>

        <para>The following options are understood:</para>

        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>-h</option></term>
                <term><option>--help</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show help options and exit.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--user</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show changes to the user installation.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--system</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show changes to the default system-wide installation.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--installation=NAME</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show changes to the installation specified by <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg>
                    among those defined in <filename>/etc/flatpak/installations.d/</filename>.
                    Using <option>--installation=default</option> is equivalent to using
                    <option>--system</option>.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--since=TIME</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Only show changes that are newer than the time specified by
                    <arg choice="plain">TIME</arg>.
                </para><para>
                    <arg choice="plain">TIME</arg> can be either an absolute time
                    in a format like YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, or a relative time like
                    "2h", "7days", "4days 2hours".
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--until=TIME</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Only show changes that are older than the time specified by
                    <arg choice="plain">TIME</arg>.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--reverse</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show newest entries first.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>-v</option></term>
                <term><option>--verbose</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Print debug information during command processing.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--ostree-verbose</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Print OSTree debug information during command processing.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--columns=FIELD,…</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Specify what information to show about each ref. You can
                    list multiple fields, or use this option multiple times.
                </para><para>
                    Append :s[tart], :m[iddle], :e[nd] or :f[ull] to column
                    names to change ellipsization.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>

   <refsect1>
        <title>Fields</title>

        <para>The following fields are understood by the <option>--columns</option> option:</para>

        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>time</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show when the change happened
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>change</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the kind of change
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>ref</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the ref
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>application</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the application/runtime ID
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>arch</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the architecture
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>branch</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the branch
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>installation</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the affected installation.
                </para><para>
                    This will be either the ID of a Flatpak installation,
                    or the path to a temporary OSTree repository.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>remote</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the remote that is used.
                </para><para>
                    This will be either the name of a configured remote,
                    or the path to a temporary OSTree repository.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>old-commit</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the previous commit. For pulls, this is the previous HEAD of the branch.
                    For deploys, it is the previously active commit
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>commit</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the current commit. For pulls, this is the HEAD of the branch.
                    For deploys, it is the active commit
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>url</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the remote url
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>user</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the user doing the change.
                </para><para>
                    If this is the system helper operating as root,
                    also show which user triggered the change.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>tool</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the tool that was used.
                </para><para>
                    If this is the system helper, also show
                    which tool was used to triggered the change.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>all</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show all columns
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term>help</term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show the list of available columns
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>

        <para>
          Note that field names can be abbreviated to a unique prefix.
        </para>

    </refsect1>

    <refsect1>
        <title>See also</title>

        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        </para>

    </refsect1>

</refentry>
