Merge branch 'rs/pretty'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 1c1978140f68a5e21dec6ea8d6715b58666f8b7c..485280423e90bac43b4c372bbc8d350c34cf4fa8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
             [ \--pretty | \--header ]
             [ \--bisect ]
             [ \--bisect-vars ]
+            [ \--bisect-all ]
             [ \--merge ]
             [ \--reverse ]
             [ \--walk-reflogs ]
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ e.g. "2 hours ago".
 `--date=rfc` (or `--date=rfc2822`) shows timestamps in RFC 2822
 format, often found in E-mail messages.
 +
-`--date=short` shows only date but not time, in `YYYY-MM-DD` fomat.
+`--date=short` shows only date but not time, in `YYYY-MM-DD` format.
 +
 `--date=default` shows timestamps in the original timezone
 (either committer's or author's).
@@ -299,6 +300,8 @@ used in the output.  When the starting commit is specified as
 instead.  Under '\--pretty=oneline', the commit message is
 prefixed with this information on the same line.
 
+Cannot be combined with '\--reverse'.
+
 --merge::
 
        After a failed merge, show refs that touch files having a
@@ -352,6 +355,21 @@ 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`.
 
+--bisect-all::
+
+This outputs all the commit objects between the included and excluded
+commits, ordered by their distance to the included and excluded
+commits. The farthest from them is displayed first. (This is the only
+one displayed by `--bisect`.)
+
+This is useful because it makes it easy to choose a good commit to
+test when you want to avoid to test some of them for some reason (they
+may not compile for example).
+
+This option can be used along with `--bisect-vars`, in this case,
+after all the sorted commit objects, there will be the same text as if
+`--bisect-vars` had been used alone.
+
 --
 
 Commit Ordering
@@ -373,6 +391,7 @@ By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order.
 --reverse::
 
        Output the commits in reverse order.
+       Cannot be combined with '\--walk-reflogs'.
 
 Object Traversal
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~