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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index d80cdf5502..3341d1b62f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [ \--max-age=timestamp ] [ \--min-age=timestamp ] [ \--sparse ] + [ \--merges ] [ \--no-merges ] [ \--first-parent ] [ \--remove-empty ] @@ -32,9 +33,9 @@ SYNOPSIS [ \--cherry-pick ] [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ] [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ] - [ \--regexp-ignore-case | \-i ] - [ \--extended-regexp | \-E ] - [ \--fixed-strings | \-F ] + [ \--regexp-ignore-case | -i ] + [ \--extended-regexp | -E ] + [ \--fixed-strings | -F ] [ \--date={local|relative|default|iso|rfc|short} ] [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ] [ \--pretty | \--header ] @@ -50,28 +51,34 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the -given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account. This is -useful to produce human-readable log output. +List commits that are reachable by following the `parent` links from the +given commit(s), but exclude commits that are reachable from the one(s) +given with a '{caret}' in front of them. The output is given in reverse +chronological order by default. -Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to -stop at that point. Their parents are implied. Thus the following -command: +You can think of this as a set operation. Commits given on the command +line form a set of commits that are reachable from any of them, and then +commits reachable from any of the ones given with '{caret}' in front are +subtracted from that set. The remaining commits are what comes out in the +command's output. Various other options and paths parameters can be used +to further limit the result. + +Thus, the following command: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - $ git-rev-list foo bar ^baz + $ git rev-list foo bar ^baz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but -not in 'baz'". +means "list all the commits which are reachable from 'foo' or 'bar', but +not from 'baz'". A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of the following may be used interchangeably: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - $ git-rev-list origin..HEAD - $ git-rev-list HEAD ^origin + $ git rev-list origin..HEAD + $ git rev-list HEAD ^origin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Another special notation is "'<commit1>'...'<commit2>'" which is useful @@ -79,15 +86,15 @@ for merges. The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - $ git-rev-list A B --not $(git-merge-base --all A B) - $ git-rev-list A...B + $ git rev-list A B --not $(git merge-base --all A B) + $ git rev-list A...B ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -linkgit:git-rev-list[1] is a very essential git program, since it +'rev-list' is a very essential git command, since it provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be -used by commands as different as linkgit:git-bisect[1] and -linkgit:git-repack[1]. +used by commands as different as 'git-bisect' and +'git-repack'. OPTIONS ------- @@ -109,4 +116,4 @@ and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |