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| author |  Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> | 2007-11-19 19:25:11 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-11-20 00:15:13 -0800 |
| commit | 97e92e2cbca3dc850d8b04b30740be8d81c17552 (patch) | |
| tree | f6de233d03a3fc134000ec5dc2d0002593b3e0e3 | |
| parent | config: clarify compression defaults (diff) | |
| download | tgif-97e92e2cbca3dc850d8b04b30740be8d81c17552.tar.xz | |
Doc fix for git-reflog: mention @{...} syntax, and <ref> in synopsys.
The HEAD@{...} syntax was documented in git-rev-parse manpage, which
is hard to find by someone looking for the documentation of porcelain.
git-reflog is probably the place where one expects to find this.
While I'm there, "git revlog show whatever" was also undocumented.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-reflog.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt index 5c7316ceb8..25003c3866 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ depending on the subcommand: git reflog expire [--dry-run] [--stale-fix] [--verbose] [--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>] [--all] <refs>... -git reflog [show] [log-options] +git reflog [show] [log-options] [<ref>] Reflog is a mechanism to record when the tip of branches are updated. This command is to manage the information recorded in it. @@ -32,9 +32,16 @@ directly by the end users -- instead, see gitlink:git-gc[1]. The subcommand "show" (which is also the default, in the absence of any subcommands) will take all the normal log options, and show the log of -`HEAD`, which will cover all recent actions, including branch switches. -It is basically an alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit ---pretty=oneline', see gitlink:git-log[1]. +the reference provided in the command-line (or `HEAD`, by default). +The reflog will cover all recent actions (HEAD reflog records branch switching +as well). It is an alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline'; +see gitlink:git-log[1]. + +The reflog is useful in various git commands, to specify the old value +of a reference. For example, `HEAD@\{2\}` means "where HEAD used to be +two moves ago", `master@\{one.week.ago\}` means "where master used to +point to one week ago", and so on. See gitlink:git-rev-parse[1] for +more details. OPTIONS |