Merge branch 'da/difftool-test'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index dfd4d0c2233df09b64a10d1ad31a36afaa01ec7c..ff3755b4c72a52595be805e92a9f3b62d1477af2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 git log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [-h] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-w]
-'git shortlog' [-n|--numbered] [-s|--summary] [-e|--email] [-w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]] [<committish>...]
+'git shortlog' [-n|--numbered] [-s|--summary] [-e|--email] [-w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]] <commit>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ the first line of the commit message will be shown.
 
 Additionally, "[PATCH]" will be stripped from the commit description.
 
+If no revisions are passed on the command line and either standard input
+is not a terminal or there is no current branch, 'git shortlog' will
+output a summary of the log read from standard input, without
+reference to the current repository.
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
@@ -39,6 +44,14 @@ OPTIONS
 --email::
        Show the email address of each author.
 
+--format[=<format>]::
+       Instead of the commit subject, use some other information to
+       describe each commit.  '<format>' can be any string accepted
+       by the `--format` option of 'git log', such as '{asterisk} [%h] %s'.
+       (See the "PRETTY FORMATS" section of linkgit:git-log[1].)
+
+       Each pretty-printed commit will be rewrapped before it is shown.
+
 -w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]::
        Linewrap the output by wrapping each line at `width`.  The first
        line of each entry is indented by `indent1` spaces, and the second
@@ -55,15 +68,6 @@ spelled differently.
 
 include::mailmap.txt[]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite