Add -P to the documentation head.

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
index 71d5ba8..c6c97b2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 git-show-branch(1)
 ==================
-v0.99.4, Aug 2005
 
 NAME
 ----
@@ -8,7 +7,7 @@ git-show-branch - Show branches and their commits.
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=<n>] [--merge-base] <reference>...'
+'git-show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] [--no-name | --sha1-name] <reference>...'
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -28,12 +27,34 @@ OPTIONS
 --more=<n>::
        Usually the command stops output upon showing the commit
        that is the common ancestor of all the branches.  This
-       flag tells the command to go <n> commits beyond that.
+       flag tells the command to go <n> more common commits
+       beyond that.  When <n> is negative, display only the
+       <reference>s given, without showing the commit ancestry
+       tree.
+
+--list::
+       Synomym to `--more=-1`
 
 --merge-base::
        Instead of showing the commit list, just act like the
-       'git-merge-base' command except that it can accept more
-       than two heads.
+       'git-merge-base -a' command, except that it can accept
+       more than two heads.
+
+--independent::
+       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.
 
 
 OUTPUT
@@ -76,21 +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.
-
-------------------------------------------------
-$ git show-branch --more=4 master
-[master] Add 'git show-branch'.
-[~1] Add a new extended SHA1 syntax <name>~<num>
-[~2] Fix "git-diff-script A B"
-[~3] git-ls-files: generalized pathspecs
-[~4] Make "git-ls-files" work in subdirectories
-------------------------------------------------
 
 Author
 ------
@@ -104,4 +110,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite