Merge branch 'cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable' into maint-1.7.8

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt
index 48b612e2ae50c319bcef567c7619f60396dd8408..1e38819e67cda4282ec7ede004ee5668d0a478c8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-show.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-show - Show various types of objects
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git show' [options] <object>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,16 +17,16 @@ Shows one or more objects (blobs, trees, tags and commits).
 
 For commits it shows the log message and textual diff. It also
 presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
-'git-diff-tree --cc'.
+'git diff-tree --cc'.
 
 For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects.
 
-For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git-ls-tree'
+For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git ls-tree'
 with \--name-only).
 
 For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents.
 
-The command takes options applicable to the 'git-diff-tree' command to
+The command takes options applicable to the 'git diff-tree' command to
 control how the changes the commit introduces are shown.
 
 This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <object>...::
        The names of objects to show.
        For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
-       "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+       "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 
 include::pretty-options.txt[]
 
@@ -47,19 +48,23 @@ include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 
-git show v1.0.0::
+`git show v1.0.0`::
        Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
        points at.
 
-git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
+`git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}`::
        Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
 
-git show next~10:Documentation/README::
+`git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}`::
+       Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the
+       tag `v1.0.0`.
+
+`git show next~10:Documentation/README`::
        Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
        they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
        `next`.
 
-git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile::
+`git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile`::
        Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
        of the branch `master`.
 
@@ -68,17 +73,6 @@ Discussion
 
 include::i18n.txt[]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.  Significantly enhanced by
-Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>.
-
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Petr Baudis and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite