Merge branch 'ks/sort-wildcard-in-makefile' into maint-1.7.8

[git.git] / Documentation / git-log.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 6d40f0011b0fd297e5676c8479e46989d7f47696..249fc878ec2058f9fcfc6655ecaeb299ba5622a7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-log - Show commit logs
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git log' [<options>] [<since>..<until>] [[\--] <path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -<n>::
        Limits the number of commits to show.
+       Note that this is a commit limiting option, see below.
 
 <since>..<until>::
        Show only commits between the named two commits.  When
@@ -67,64 +69,67 @@ produced by --stat etc.
        its size is not included.
 
 [\--] <path>...::
-       Show only commits that affect any of the specified paths. To
-       prevent confusion with options and branch names, paths may need
-       to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from options or
-       refnames.
+       Show only commits that are enough to explain how the files
+       that match the specified paths came to be.  See "History
+       Simplification" below for details and other simplification
+       modes.
++
+To prevent confusion with options and branch names, paths may need to
+be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from options or refnames.
+
+include::rev-list-options.txt[]
+
+include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 
 Common diff options
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------------
 
 :git-log: 1
 include::diff-options.txt[]
 
-include::rev-list-options.txt[]
-
-include::pretty-formats.txt[]
-
 include::diff-generate-patch.txt[]
 
 Examples
 --------
-git log --no-merges::
+`git log --no-merges`::
 
        Show the whole commit history, but skip any merges
 
-git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi::
+`git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi`::
 
        Show all commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any file
        in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
 
-git log --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk::
+`git log --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk`::
 
        Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'.
        The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named
        'gitk'
 
-git log --name-status release..test::
+`git log --name-status release..test`::
 
        Show the commits that are in the "test" branch but not yet
        in the "release" branch, along with the list of paths
        each commit modifies.
 
-git log --follow builtin-rev-list.c::
+`git log --follow builtin-rev-list.c`::
 
        Shows the commits that changed builtin-rev-list.c, including
        those commits that occurred before the file was given its
        present name.
 
-git log --branches --not --remotes=origin::
+`git log --branches --not --remotes=origin`::
 
        Shows all commits that are in any of local branches but not in
-       any of remote tracking branches for 'origin' (what you have that
+       any of remote-tracking branches for 'origin' (what you have that
        origin doesn't).
 
-git log master --not --remotes=*/master::
+`git log master --not --remotes=*/master`::
 
        Shows all commits that are in local master but not in any remote
        repository master branches.
 
-git log -p -m --first-parent::
+`git log -p -m --first-parent`::
 
        Shows the history including change diffs, but only from the
        "main branch" perspective, skipping commits that come from merged
@@ -177,17 +182,9 @@ May be an unabbreviated ref name or a glob and may be specified
 multiple times.  A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist,
 but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored.
 +
-This setting can be disabled by the `--no-standard-notes` option,
+This setting can be disabled by the `--no-notes` option,
 overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable,
-and supplemented by the `--show-notes` option.
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+and overridden by the `--notes=<ref>` option.
 
 GIT
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