Teach --stdin option to "log" family

[git.git] / Documentation / git-ls-tree.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index 69c7dee1b9aa73be122c4e1d764ef65a21f3d37e..c3fdccb4c2f66b8b3a3c6b60b21feac881b06cb4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z]
-           [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--abbrev=[<n>]]
+           [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev=[<n>]]
            <tree-ish> [paths...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ in the current working directory.  Note that:
    'sub/dir' in 'HEAD').  You don't want to give a tree that is not at the
    root level (e.g. 'git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir') in this case, as that
    would result in asking for 'sub/sub/dir' in the 'HEAD' commit.
+   However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing
+   --full-tree option.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -59,13 +61,17 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --abbrev[=<n>]::
        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
-       lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
+       lines, show only a partial prefix.
        Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
 
 --full-name::
        Instead of showing the path names relative to the current working
        directory, show the full path names.
 
+--full-tree::
+       Do not limit the listing to the current working directory.
+       Implies --full-name.
+
 paths::
        When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw
        pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match).  Otherwise
@@ -78,6 +84,8 @@ Output Format
 
 Unless the `-z` option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively.
+This output format is compatible with what '--index-info --stdin' of
+'git update-index' expects.
 
 When the `-l` option is used, format changes to