Documentation: clarify which parameters are optional to git-cherry

[git.git] / Documentation / git-rev-parse.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 088f971b790ddd11d39ab2c3b441833961e53a0f..2921da320d2b84df4d15ec2745e6d94093dd6907 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -155,8 +155,9 @@ blobs contained in a commit.
   name the same commit object if there are no other object in
   your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.
 
   name the same commit object if there are no other object in
   your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.
 

-* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, followed by a
-  dash, a `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
+* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, optionally
+  followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a
+  `g`, and an abbreviated object name.

 
 * A symbolic ref name.  E.g. 'master' typically means the commit
   object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master.  If you
 
 * A symbolic ref name.  E.g. 'master' typically means the commit
   object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master.  If you


@@ -426,7 +427,7 @@ but if $REV is empty, the commit object name from master will be printed.
 Author
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 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> .
 Author
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 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> .

-Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> and Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
+Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>

 
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