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diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 39e6207269..918c1109f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ ordering and formatting options, such as '--reverse'.
--
--n 'number'::
+-<number>::
+-n <number>::
--max-count=<number>::
Limit the number of commits to output.
@@ -117,27 +118,27 @@ parents) and `--max-parents=-1` (negative numbers denote no upper limit).
Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/heads` are listed
on the command line as '<commit>'. If '<pattern>' is given, limit
branches to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?',
- '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
+ '{asterisk}', or '[', '/{asterisk}' at the end is implied.
--tags[=<pattern>]::
Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/tags` are listed
on the command line as '<commit>'. If '<pattern>' is given, limit
- tags to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '*',
- or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
+ tags to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '{asterisk}',
+ or '[', '/{asterisk}' at the end is implied.
--remotes[=<pattern>]::
Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/remotes` are listed
on the command line as '<commit>'. If '<pattern>' is given, limit
remote-tracking branches to ones matching given shell glob.
- If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
+ If pattern lacks '?', '{asterisk}', or '[', '/{asterisk}' at the end is implied.
--glob=<glob-pattern>::
Pretend as if all the refs matching shell glob '<glob-pattern>'
are listed on the command line as '<commit>'. Leading 'refs/',
- is automatically prepended if missing. If pattern lacks '?', '*',
- or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
+ is automatically prepended if missing. If pattern lacks '?', '{asterisk}',
+ or '[', '/{asterisk}' at the end is implied.
--ignore-missing::
@@ -198,7 +199,7 @@ excluded from the output.
+
For example, `--cherry-pick --right-only A...B` omits those
commits from `B` which are in `A` or are patch-equivalent to a commit in
-`A`. In other words, this lists the `{plus}` commits from `git cherry A B`.
+`A`. In other words, this lists the `+` commits from `git cherry A B`.
More precisely, `--cherry-pick --right-only --no-merges` gives the exact
list.
@@ -455,7 +456,7 @@ The effect of this is best shown by way of comparing to
`---------'
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
-Note the major differences in `N` and `P` over '\--full-history':
+Note the major differences in `N` and `P` over '--full-history':
+
--
* `N`'s parent list had `I` removed, because it is an ancestor of the
@@ -494,7 +495,7 @@ of course).
When we want to find out what commits in `M` are contaminated with the
bug introduced by `D` and need fixing, however, we might want to view
only the subset of 'D..M' that are actually descendants of `D`, i.e.
-excluding `C` and `K`. This is exactly what the '\--ancestry-path'
+excluding `C` and `K`. This is exactly what the '--ancestry-path'
option does. Applied to the 'D..M' range, it results in:
+
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -578,16 +579,33 @@ Commit Ordering
By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order.
---topo-order::
+--date-order::
+ Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but
+ otherwise show commits in the commit timestamp order.
- This option makes them appear in topological order (i.e.
- descendant commits are shown before their parents).
+--topo-order::
+ Show no parents before all of its children are shown, and
+ avoid showing commits on multiple lines of history
+ intermixed.
++
+For example, in a commit history like this:
++
+----------------------------------------------------------------
---date-order::
+ ---1----2----4----7
+ \ \
+ 3----5----6----8---
- This option is similar to '--topo-order' in the sense that no
- parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things
- are still ordered in the commit timestamp order.
+----------------------------------------------------------------
++
+where the numbers denote the order of commit timestamps, `git
+rev-list` and friends with `--date-order` show the commits in the
+timestamp order: 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
++
+With `--topo-order`, they would show 8 6 5 3 7 4 2 1 (or 8 7 4 2 6 5
+3 1); some older commits are shown before newer ones in order to
+avoid showing the commits from two parallel development track mixed
+together.
--reverse::
@@ -619,9 +637,14 @@ These options are mostly targeted for packing of git repositories.
Only useful with '--objects'; print the object IDs that are not
in packs.
---no-walk::
+--no-walk[=(sorted|unsorted)]::
- Only show the given revs, but do not traverse their ancestors.
+ Only show the given commits, but do not traverse their ancestors.
+ This has no effect if a range is specified. If the argument
+ "unsorted" is given, the commits are show in the order they were
+ given on the command line. Otherwise (if "sorted" or no argument
+ was given), the commits are show in reverse chronological order
+ by commit time.
--do-walk::
@@ -759,7 +782,7 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options.
--cc::
- This flag implies the '-c' options and further compresses the
+ This flag implies the '-c' option and further compresses the
patch output by omitting uninteresting hunks whose contents in
the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks
one of them without modification.