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@@ -42,6 +42,20 @@ people using 80-column terminals.
verbatim; this means that invalid sequences in the original
commit may be copied to the output.
+--expand-tabs=<n>::
+--expand-tabs::
+--no-expand-tabs::
+ Perform a tab expansion (replace each tab with enough spaces
+ to fill to the next display column that is multiple of '<n>')
+ in the log message before showing it in the output.
+ `--expand-tabs` is a short-hand for `--expand-tabs=8`, and
+ `--no-expand-tabs` is a short-hand for `--expand-tabs=0`,
+ which disables tab expansion.
++
+By default, tabs are expanded in pretty formats that indent the log
+message by 4 spaces (i.e. 'medium', which is the default, 'full',
+and 'fuller').
+
ifndef::git-rev-list[]
--notes[=<treeish>]::
Show the notes (see linkgit:git-notes[1]) that annotate the