mailinfo documentation: accurately describe non -k case

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index ff41784c60b04a276931fc90ab54a22a67024a1e..de5c0d37a5c1c8c948aa01e276c3e198eb617be6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ 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
@@ -72,16 +73,16 @@ produced by --stat etc.
        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
@@ -177,17 +178,9 @@ 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
 ---