Document git rev-list --full-history

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 0dba73f27607560d3e868306af78bad83dc3bfff..043ff5114705e8dddb0fecefdadd560613fd1c76 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
             [ \--sparse ]
             [ \--no-merges ]
             [ \--remove-empty ]
+            [ \--full-history ]
             [ \--not ]
             [ \--all ]
             [ \--stdin ]
@@ -228,6 +229,14 @@ limiting may be applied.
 
        Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
 
+--full-history::
+
+       Show also parts of history irrelevant to current state of a given
+       path. This turns off history simplification, which removed merges
+       which didn't change anything at all at some child. It will still actually
+       simplify away merges that didn't change anything at all into either
+       child.
+
 --no-merges::
 
        Do not print commits with more than one parent.