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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-29 22:30:56 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-29 22:30:56 -0700
commit31d69db340d3d056668cbc278abf01a0a552d9b4 (patch)
tree932086eb0528a96e17d908e5528e33758462f9e3 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'jc/maint-mailinfo-mime-attr' into maint (diff)
parentgrep.c: make two symbols really file-scope static this time (diff)
downloadtgif-31d69db340d3d056668cbc278abf01a0a552d9b4.tar.xz
Merge branch 'jc/maint-log-grep-all-match-1' into maint
* jc/maint-log-grep-all-match-1: grep.c: make two symbols really file-scope static this time t7810-grep: test --all-match with multiple --grep and --author options t7810-grep: test interaction of multiple --grep and --author options t7810-grep: test multiple --author with --all-match t7810-grep: test multiple --grep with and without --all-match t7810-grep: bring log --grep tests in common form grep.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static log: document use of multiple commit limiting options log --grep/--author: honor --all-match honored for multiple --grep patterns grep: show --debug output only once grep: teach --debug option to dump the parse tree
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt23
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 918c1109f2..1fc2a18404 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,15 @@ Commit Limiting
Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the
special notations explained in the description, additional commit
-limiting may be applied. Note that they are applied before commit
-ordering and formatting options, such as '--reverse'.
+limiting may be applied.
+
+Using more options generally further limits the output (e.g.
+`--since=<date1>` limits to commits newer than `<date1>`, and using it
+with `--grep=<pattern>` further limits to commits whose log message
+has a line that matches `<pattern>`), unless otherwise noted.
+
+Note that these are applied before commit
+ordering and formatting options, such as `--reverse`.
--
@@ -39,16 +46,22 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
--committer=<pattern>::
Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
- header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).
+ header lines that match the specified pattern (regular
+ expression). With more than one `--author=<pattern>`,
+ commits whose author matches any of the given patterns are
+ chosen (similarly for multiple `--committer=<pattern>`).
--grep=<pattern>::
Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
- matches the specified pattern (regular expression).
+ matches the specified pattern (regular expression). With
+ more than one `--grep=<pattern>`, commits whose message
+ matches any of the given patterns are chosen (but see
+ `--all-match`).
--all-match::
Limit the commits output to ones that match all given --grep,
- --author and --committer instead of ones that match at least one.
+ instead of ones that match at least one.
-i::
--regexp-ignore-case::