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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Document git rev-list --first-parent
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:20:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198484450-16454-1-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> (raw)

Document git rev-list's --first-parent option.  Documentation taken from
git log.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
---
 Documentation/git-rev-list.txt |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index a03f9fe..b049086 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	     [ \--min-age=timestamp ]
 	     [ \--sparse ]
 	     [ \--no-merges ]
+	     [ \--first-parent ]
 	     [ \--remove-empty ]
 	     [ \--full-history ]
 	     [ \--not ]
@@ -256,6 +257,11 @@ limiting may be applied.
 
 	Do not print commits with more than one parent.
 
+--first-parent::
+	Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge
+	commit.  This  option gives a better overview of the
+	evolution of a particular branch.
+
 --not::
 
 	Reverses the meaning of the '{caret}' prefix (or lack thereof)
-- 
1.5.3.7

             reply	other threads:[~2007-12-24  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-24  8:20 Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-12-24  8:30 ` [PATCH] Document git rev-list --first-parent Junio C Hamano
2007-12-24  8:36   ` Avi Kivity
2007-12-24  9:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-24  9:40       ` Avi Kivity
2007-12-24  9:58         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-24 10:14           ` Avi Kivity
2007-12-24 16:37             ` Avi Kivity
2007-12-25  9:35             ` Junio C Hamano

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