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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index a765cfa4d2..3341d1b62f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt @@ -51,20 +51,26 @@ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -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 @@ -84,7 +90,7 @@ between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent: $ git rev-list A...B ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -'git-rev-list' 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 'git-bisect' and |