Merge branch 'mk/grep-max-depth'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index fd1de92e34b459cdc89928e1561ee6934cd63c19..bf98c8449c2cf2d7adef849f0f4fda08427c0487 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
             [ \--max-age=timestamp ]
             [ \--min-age=timestamp ]
             [ \--sparse ]
+            [ \--merges ]
             [ \--no-merges ]
             [ \--first-parent ]
             [ \--remove-empty ]
@@ -32,9 +33,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
             [ \--cherry-pick ]
             [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
             [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
-            [ \--regexp-ignore-case | \-i ]
-            [ \--extended-regexp | \-E ]
-            [ \--fixed-strings | \-F ]
+            [ \--regexp-ignore-case | -i ]
+            [ \--extended-regexp | -E ]
+            [ \--fixed-strings | -F ]
             [ \--date={local|relative|default|iso|rfc|short} ]
             [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
             [ \--pretty | \--header ]
@@ -50,20 +51,26 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 
-Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the
-given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account.  This is
-useful to produce human-readable log output.
+List commits that are reachable by following the `parent` links from the
+given commit(s), but exclude commits that are reachable from the one(s)
+given with a '{caret}' in front of them.  The output is given in reverse
+chronological order by default.
 
-Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to
-stop at that point. Their parents are implied. Thus the following
-command:
+You can think of this as a set operation.  Commits given on the command
+line form a set of commits that are reachable from any of them, and then
+commits reachable from any of the ones given with '{caret}' in front are
+subtracted from that set.  The remaining commits are what comes out in the
+command's output.  Various other options and paths parameters can be used
+to further limit the result.
+
+Thus, the following command:
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
        $ git rev-list foo bar ^baz
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but
-not in 'baz'".
+means "list all the commits which are reachable from 'foo' or 'bar', but
+not from 'baz'".
 
 A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
 short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of