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index 7cd0e8913e..989fbf3562 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[ \--not ]
[ \--all ]
[ \--stdin ]
+ [ \--quiet ]
[ \--topo-order ]
[ \--parents ]
[ \--timestamp ]
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[ \--pretty | \--header ]
[ \--bisect ]
[ \--bisect-vars ]
+ [ \--bisect-all ]
[ \--merge ]
[ \--reverse ]
[ \--walk-reflogs ]
@@ -269,6 +271,14 @@ limiting may be applied.
In addition to the '<commit>' listed on the command
line, read them from the standard input.
+--quiet::
+
+ Don't print anything to standard output. This form of
+ git-rev-list is primarly meant to allow the caller to
+ test the exit status to see if a range of objects is fully
+ connected (or not). It is faster than redirecting stdout
+ to /dev/null as the output does not have to be formatted.
+
--cherry-pick::
Omit any commit that introduces the same change as
@@ -354,6 +364,21 @@ the expected number of commits to be tested if `bisect_rev`
turns out to be bad to `bisect_bad`, and the number of commits
we are bisecting right now to `bisect_all`.
+--bisect-all::
+
+This outputs all the commit objects between the included and excluded
+commits, ordered by their distance to the included and excluded
+commits. The farthest from them is displayed first. (This is the only
+one displayed by `--bisect`.)
+
+This is useful because it makes it easy to choose a good commit to
+test when you want to avoid to test some of them for some reason (they
+may not compile for example).
+
+This option can be used along with `--bisect-vars`, in this case,
+after all the sorted commit objects, there will be the same text as if
+`--bisect-vars` had been used alone.
+
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