show-branch: optionally use unique prefix as name.

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
index e0dce7e..c6c97b2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-show-branch - Show branches and their commits.
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] <reference>...'
+'git-show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] [--no-name | --sha1-name] <reference>...'
 
 DESCRIPTION
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@@ -44,6 +44,15 @@ OPTIONS
        Among the <reference>s given, display only the ones that
        cannot be reached from any other <reference>.
 
+--no-name::
+       Do not show naming strings for each commit.
+
+--sha1-name::
+       Instead of naming the commits using the path to reach
+       them from heads (e.g. "master~2" to mean the grandparent
+       of "master"), name them with the unique prefix of their
+       object names.
+
 Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options
 are mutually exclusive.
 
@@ -88,21 +97,6 @@ whose commit message is "Add 'git show-branch'.  "fixes" branch
 adds one commit 'Introduce "reset type"'.  "mhf" branch has many
 other commits.
 
-When only one head is given, the output format changes slightly
-to conserve space.  The '+' sign to show which commit is
-reachable from which head and the first N lines to show the list
-of heads being displayed are both meaningless so they are
-omitted.  Also the label given to each commit does not repeat
-the name of the branch because it is obvious.
-
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-$ git show-branch --more=4 master
-[master] Add 'git show-branch'.
-[~1] Add a new extended SHA1 syntax <name>~<num>
-[~2] Fix "git-diff A B"
-[~3] git-ls-files: generalized pathspecs
-[~4] Make "git-ls-files" work in subdirectories
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