Teach revision machinery about --reverse

The option --reverse reverses the order of the commits.

[jc: with comments on rev_info.reverse from Simon 'corecode' Schubert.]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index a996f6cb1e..beb090651b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	     [ \--pretty | \--header ]
 	     [ \--bisect ]
 	     [ \--merge ]
+	     [ \--reverse ]
 	     [ \--walk-reflogs ]
 	     <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ]
 
@@ -266,6 +267,10 @@ By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order.
 	parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things
 	are still ordered in the commit timestamp order.
 
+--reverse::
+
+	Output the commits in reverse order.
+
 Object Traversal
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