Documentation: git-rev-list's "patterns"

git-rev-list(1) talks about patterns as values for the
--grep, --committed etc. parameters, without going into detail.
This patch mentions that these patterns are actually regexps.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 11ce395c982d5eb217d13441c2668884cc371d22..fde9a7208de04a0ee3165dd7d398061270649116 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -193,12 +193,12 @@ limiting may be applied.
 --author='pattern', --committer='pattern'::
 
        Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
-       header lines that match the specified pattern.
+       header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).
 
 --grep='pattern'::
 
        Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
-       matches the specified pattern.
+       matches the specified pattern (regular expression).
 
 --remove-empty::