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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-07-06 15:38:18 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-07-06 15:38:18 -0700
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Merge commit 'v1.7.0' into jc/checkout-reflog-fix
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index fd1de92e34..173f3fc785 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -9,20 +9,22 @@ git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ]
+'git rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ]
[ \--skip=number ]
[ \--max-age=timestamp ]
[ \--min-age=timestamp ]
[ \--sparse ]
+ [ \--merges ]
[ \--no-merges ]
[ \--first-parent ]
[ \--remove-empty ]
[ \--full-history ]
[ \--not ]
[ \--all ]
- [ \--branches ]
- [ \--tags ]
- [ \--remotes ]
+ [ \--branches[=pattern] ]
+ [ \--tags[=pattern] ]
+ [ \--remotes[=pattern] ]
+ [ \--glob=glob-pattern ]
[ \--stdin ]
[ \--quiet ]
[ \--topo-order ]
@@ -32,9 +34,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
[ \--cherry-pick ]
[ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
[ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
- [ \--regexp-ignore-case | \-i ]
- [ \--extended-regexp | \-E ]
- [ \--fixed-strings | \-F ]
+ [ \--regexp-ignore-case | -i ]
+ [ \--extended-regexp | -E ]
+ [ \--fixed-strings | -F ]
[ \--date={local|relative|default|iso|rfc|short} ]
[ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
[ \--pretty | \--header ]
@@ -50,20 +52,26 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the
-given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account. This is
-useful to produce human-readable log output.
+List commits that are reachable by following the `parent` links from the
+given commit(s), but exclude commits that are reachable from the one(s)
+given with a '{caret}' in front of them. The output is given in reverse
+chronological order by default.
-Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to
-stop at that point. Their parents are implied. Thus the following
-command:
+You can think of this as a set operation. Commits given on the command
+line form a set of commits that are reachable from any of them, and then
+commits reachable from any of the ones given with '{caret}' in front are
+subtracted from that set. The remaining commits are what comes out in the
+command's output. Various other options and paths parameters can be used
+to further limit the result.
+
+Thus, the following command:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
$ git rev-list foo bar ^baz
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but
-not in 'baz'".
+means "list all the commits which are reachable from 'foo' or 'bar', but
+not from 'baz'".
A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of
@@ -83,11 +91,11 @@ between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent:
$ git rev-list A...B
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-'git-rev-list' is a very essential git program, since it
+'rev-list' is a very essential git command, since it
provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For
this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be
-used by commands as different as 'git-bisect' and
-'git-repack'.
+used by commands as different as 'git bisect' and
+'git repack'.
OPTIONS
-------