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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-show-branch.txt10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
index a2445a48fc..948ff10e6c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git-show-branch' [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--topo-order] [--current]
[--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base]
- [--no-name | --sha1-name] [<rev> | <glob>]...
+ [--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics] [<rev> | <glob>]...
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ OPTIONS
of "master"), name them with the unique prefix of their
object names.
+--topics::
+ Shows only commits that are NOT on the first branch given.
+ This helps track topic branches by hiding any commit that
+ is already in the main line of development. When given
+ "git show-branch --topics master topic1 topic2", this
+ will show the revisions given by "git rev-list {caret}master
+ topic1 topic2"
+
Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options
are mutually exclusive.