Merge branch 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git-gui

[git.git] / Documentation / git-rev-list.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 4f145eaba47175e48dd592ffe5018be5cb4cb375..1b12b4f2a45e5650be067a3b05ce56c17a5422fc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -21,11 +21,15 @@ SYNOPSIS
             [ \--stdin ]
             [ \--topo-order ]
             [ \--parents ]
+            [ \--left-right ]
+            [ \--cherry-pick ]
             [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
             [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
+            [ \--date={local|relative|default} ]
             [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
             [ \--pretty | \--header ]
             [ \--bisect ]
+            [ \--bisect-vars ]
             [ \--merge ]
             [ \--reverse ]
             [ \--walk-reflogs ]
@@ -87,9 +91,20 @@ include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 
 --relative-date::
 
-       Show dates relative to the current time, e.g. "2 hours ago".
+       Synonym for `--date=relative`.
+
+--date={relative,local,default}::
+
        Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such
        as when using "--pretty".
++
+`--date=relative` shows dates relative to the current time,
+e.g. "2 hours ago".
++
+`--date=local` shows timestamps in user's local timezone.
++
+`--date=default` shows timestamps in the original timezone
+(either committer's or author's).
 
 --header::
 
@@ -100,6 +115,36 @@ include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 
        Print the parents of the commit.
 
+--left-right::
+
+       Mark which side of a symmetric diff a commit is reachable from.
+       Commits from the left side are prefixed with `<` and those from
+       the right with `>`.  If combined with `--boundary`, those
+       commits are prefixed with `-`.
++
+For example, if you have this topology:
++
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+             y---b---b  branch B
+            / \ /
+           /   .
+          /   / \
+         o---x---a---a  branch A
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
++
+you would get an output line this:
++
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+       $ git rev-list --left-right --boundary --pretty=oneline A...B
+
+       >bbbbbbb... 3rd on b
+       >bbbbbbb... 2nd on b
+       <aaaaaaa... 3rd on a
+       <aaaaaaa... 2nd on a
+       -yyyyyyy... 1st on b
+       -xxxxxxx... 1st on a
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Diff Formatting
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -192,6 +237,20 @@ limiting may be applied.
        In addition to the '<commit>' listed on the command
        line, read them from the standard input.
 
+--cherry-pick::
+
+       Omit any commit that introduces the same change as
+       another commit on the "other side" when the set of
+       commits are limited with symmetric difference.
++
+For example, if you have two branches, `A` and `B`, a usual way
+to list all commits on only one side of them is with
+`--left-right`, like the example above in the description of
+that option.  It however shows the commits that were cherry-picked
+from the other branch (for example, "3rd on b" may be cherry-picked
+from branch A).  With this option, such pairs of commits are
+excluded from the output.
+
 -g, --walk-reflogs::
 
        Instead of walking the commit ancestry chain, walk
@@ -249,6 +308,18 @@ introduces a regression is thus reduced to a binary search: repeatedly
 generate and test new 'midpoint's until the commit chain is of length
 one.
 
+--bisect-vars::
+
+This calculates the same as `--bisect`, but outputs text ready
+to be eval'ed by the shell. These lines will assign the name of
+the midpoint revision to the variable `bisect_rev`, and the
+expected number of commits to be tested after `bisect_rev` is
+tested to `bisect_nr`, the expected number of commits to be
+tested if `bisect_rev` turns out to be good to `bisect_good`,
+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`.
+
 --
 
 Commit Ordering