Document --short and --git-dir in git-rev-parse(1)

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index d638bfc..1662e06 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -77,6 +77,14 @@ OPTIONS
        path of the top-level directory relative to the current
        directory (typically a sequence of "../", or an empty string).
 
+--git-dir::
+       Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined else show the path to the .git directory.
+
+--short, short=number::
+       Instead of outputting the full SHA1 values of object names try to
+       abbriviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified
+       7 is used. The minimum length is 4.
+
 --since=datestring, --after=datestring::
        Parses the date string, and outputs corresponding
        --max-age= parameter for git-rev-list command.