Merge part of 'lt/rev-list' into 'fk/blame'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 git-rev-list(1)
 ===============
-v0.1, May 2005
 
 NAME
 ----
@@ -9,14 +8,91 @@ git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-rev-list' <commit>
+[verse]
+'git-rev-list' [ \--max-count=number ]
+            [ \--max-age=timestamp ]
+            [ \--min-age=timestamp ]
+            [ \--sparse ]
+            [ \--no-merges ]
+            [ \--remove-empty ]
+            [ \--all ]
+            [ \--topo-order ]
+            [ \--parents ]
+            [ \--objects [ \--unpacked ] ]
+            [ \--pretty | \--header ]
+            [ \--bisect ]
+            <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the
-given commit, taking ancestry relationship into account.  This is
+given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account.  This is
 useful to produce human-readable log output.
 
+Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to stop at
+that point. Their parents are implied. "git-rev-list foo bar {caret}baz" thus
+means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but
+not in 'baz'".
+
+A special notation <commit1>..<commit2> can be used as a
+short-hand for {caret}<commit1> <commit2>.
+
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+--pretty::
+       Print the contents of the commit changesets in human-readable form.
+
+--header::
+       Print the contents of the commit in raw-format; each
+       record is separated with a NUL character.
+
+--objects::
+       Print the object IDs of any object referenced by the listed commits.
+       'git-rev-list --objects foo ^bar' thus means "send me all object IDs
+       which I need to download if I have the commit object 'bar', but
+       not 'foo'".
+
+--unpacked::
+       Only useful with `--objects`; print the object IDs that
+       are not in packs.
+
+--bisect::
+       Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway
+       between the included and excluded commits. Thus, if 'git-rev-list
+       --bisect foo ^bar ^baz' outputs 'midpoint', the output
+       of 'git-rev-list foo ^midpoint' and 'git-rev-list midpoint
+       ^bar ^baz' would be of roughly the same length. Finding the change
+       which 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.
+
+--max-count::
+       Limit the number of commits output.
+
+--max-age=timestamp, --min-age=timestamp::
+       Limit the commits output to specified time range.
+
+--sparse::
+       When optional paths are given, the command outputs only
+       the commits that changes at least one of them, and also
+       ignores merges that do not touch the given paths.  This
+       flag makes the command output all eligible commits
+       (still subject to count and age limitation), but apply
+       merge simplification nevertheless.
+
+--remove-empty::
+       Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
+
+--all::
+       Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/` are
+       listed on the command line as <commit>.
+
+--topo-order::
+       By default, the commits are shown in reverse
+       chronological order.  This option makes them appear in
+       topological order (i.e. descendant commits are shown
+       before their parents).
 
 Author
 ------
@@ -28,5 +104,5 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite