revision traversal: show full history with merge simplification

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

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index b6f5d87e723bec4f00a3929274c43bfd478cc083..ee6822a85df9965901403e99d353fc3c0e1a9eed 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options.
 --cc::
 
        This flag implies the '-c' options and further compresses the
-       patch output by omitting hunks that show differences from only
-       one parent, or show the same change from all but one parent for
-       an Octopus merge.
+       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.
 
 -r::
 
@@ -193,12 +193,18 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
 
 --full-history::
 
-       Show also parts of history irrelevant to current state of a given
-       path. This turns off history simplification, which removed merges
+       Show also parts of history irrelevant to current state of given
+       paths. This turns off history simplification, which removed merges
        which didn't change anything at all at some child. It will still actually
        simplify away merges that didn't change anything at all into either
        child.
 
+--simplify-merges::
+
+       Simplify away commits that did not change the given paths, similar
+       to `--full-history`, and further remove merges none of whose
+       parent history changes the given paths.
+
 --no-merges::
 
        Do not print commits with more than one parent.