Merge branch 'maint'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 4f145eaba47175e48dd592ffe5018be5cb4cb375..12b71ed0bbae2516cb67c98c96a56e6278a6f5c2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -21,11 +21,13 @@ SYNOPSIS
             [ \--stdin ]
             [ \--topo-order ]
             [ \--parents ]
+            [ \--left-right ]
             [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
             [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
             [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
             [ \--pretty | \--header ]
             [ \--bisect ]
+            [ \--bisect-vars ]
             [ \--merge ]
             [ \--reverse ]
             [ \--walk-reflogs ]
@@ -100,6 +102,36 @@ include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 
        Print the parents of the commit.
 
+--left-right::
+
+       Mark which side of a symmetric diff a commit is reachable from.
+       Commits from the left side are prefixed with `<` and those from
+       the right with `>`.  If combined with `--boundary`, those
+       commits are prefixed with `-`.
++
+For example, if you have this topology:
++
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+             y---b---b  branch B
+            / \ /
+           /   .
+          /   / \
+         o---x---a---a  branch A
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
++
+you would get an output line this:
++
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+       $ git rev-list --left-right --boundary --pretty=oneline A...B
+
+       >bbbbbbb... 3rd on b
+       >bbbbbbb... 2nd on b
+       <aaaaaaa... 3rd on a
+       <aaaaaaa... 2nd on a
+       -yyyyyyy... 1st on b
+       -xxxxxxx... 1st on a
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Diff Formatting
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -249,6 +281,18 @@ introduces a regression is thus reduced to a binary search: repeatedly
 generate and test new 'midpoint's until the commit chain is of length
 one.
 
+--bisect-vars::
+
+This calculates the same as `--bisect`, but outputs text ready
+to be eval'ed by the shell. These lines will assign the name of
+the midpoint revision to the variable `bisect_rev`, and the
+expected number of commits to be tested after `bisect_rev` is
+tested to `bisect_nr`, the expected number of commits to be
+tested if `bisect_rev` turns out to be good to `bisect_good`,
+the expected number of commits to be tested if `bisect_rev`
+turns out to be bad to `bisect_bad`, and the number of commits
+we are bisecting right now to `bisect_all`.
+
 --
 
 Commit Ordering