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-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt4
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 34bbc39273..0df418e609 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,17 @@ This is designed to be as compact as possible.
<full commit message>
+* 'reference'
+
+ <abbrev hash> (<title line>, <short author date>)
++
+This format is used to refer to another commit in a commit message and
+is the same as `--pretty='format:%C(auto)%h (%s, %ad)'`. By default,
+the date is formatted with `--date=short` unless another `--date` option
+is explicitly specified. As with any `format:` with format
+placeholders, its output is not affected by other options like
+`--decorate` and `--walk-reflogs`.
+
* 'email'
From <hash> <date>
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index e44fc8f738..a59426eefd 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',
- 'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw', 'format:<string>'
+ 'full', 'fuller', 'reference', 'email', 'raw', 'format:<string>'
and 'tformat:<string>'. When '<format>' is none of the above,
and has '%placeholder' in it, it acts as if
'--pretty=tformat:<format>' were given.
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index bb1251c036..b94ed85c7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ list.
exclude (that is, '{caret}commit', 'commit1..commit2',
and 'commit1\...commit2' notations cannot be used).
+
-With `--pretty` format other than `oneline` (for obvious reasons),
+With `--pretty` format other than `oneline` and `reference` (for obvious reasons),
this causes the output to have two extra lines of information
taken from the reflog. The reflog designator in the output may be shown
as `ref@{Nth}` (where `Nth` is the reverse-chronological index in the
@@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ Under `--pretty=oneline`, the commit message is
prefixed with this information on the same line.
This option cannot be combined with `--reverse`.
See also linkgit:git-reflog[1].
++
+Under `--pretty=reference`, this information will not be shown at all.
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