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authorMatthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>2015-05-18 19:55:58 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-05-20 15:28:51 -0700
commit92de92172d1c01f3029d592f7e0f15d52149200b (patch)
tree48ce3142d1f2a720f3ceccfafac6b4a2c65fe6d1
parentd89df367f61e8da1ae05ef7054bab4343eb67cdf (diff)
downloadgit-mm/log-format-raw-doc.tar.gz
Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --rawmm/log-format-raw-doc
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 85d63532a3..2393f17efc 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ stored in the commit object. Notably, the SHA-1s are
displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
--no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the
true parent commits, without taking grafts or history
-simplification into account.
+simplification into account. Note that this format affects the way
+commits are displayed, but not the way the diff is shown e.g. with
+`git log --raw`. To get full object names in a raw diff format,
+use `--no-abbrev`.
* 'format:<string>'
+