show-branch: allow glob pattern to name branches to show.

[git.git] / Documentation / git-show-branch.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
index c6c97b2..304101d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
@@ -7,18 +7,29 @@ git-show-branch - Show branches and their commits.
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] [--no-name | --sha1-name] <reference>...'
+'git-show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] [--no-name | --sha1-name] [<rev> | <glob>]...'
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Shows the head commits from the named <reference> (or all refs under
-$GIT_DIR/refs/heads), and displays concise list of commit logs
-to show their relationship semi-visually.
+
+Shows the commit ancestry graph starting from the commits named
+with <rev>s or <globs>s (or all refs under $GIT_DIR/refs/heads
+and/or $GIT_DIR/refs/tags) semi-visually.
+
+It cannot show more than 29 branches and commits at a time.
+
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-<reference>::
-       Name of the reference under $GIT_DIR/refs/.
+<rev>::
+       Arbitrary extended SHA1 expression (see `git-rev-parse`)
+       that typically names a branch HEAD or a tag.
+
+<glob>::
+       A glob pattern that matches branch or tag names under
+       $GIT_DIR/refs.  For example, if you have many topic
+       branches under $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/topic, giving
+       `topic/*` would show all of them.
 
 --all --heads --tags::
        Show all refs under $GIT_DIR/refs, $GIT_DIR/refs/heads,