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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-log.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index ff41784c60..48c1715126 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ OPTIONS
-<n>::
Limits the number of commits to show.
+ Note that this is a commit limiting option, see below.
<since>..<until>::
Show only commits between the named two commits. When
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 9c47ad885b..46b7e64c8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -158,7 +158,8 @@ Commit Limiting
Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the
special notations explained in the description, additional commit
-limiting may be applied.
+limiting may be applied. Note that they are applied before commit
+ordering and formatting options, such as '--reverse'.
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