From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Santi_B=E9jar?=" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Document "git log --simplify-by-decoration" Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:47:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20081110185817.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" To: "Nanako Shiraishi" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 10 11:49:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KzUKM-0007oG-J0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:49:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754227AbYKJKrq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:47:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754192AbYKJKrq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:47:46 -0500 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:9078 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754003AbYKJKrq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:47:46 -0500 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so889279eyi.37 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.244.4 with SMTP id w4mr3594600mur.11.1226314064063; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.165.1 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:47:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20081110185817.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Nanako Shiraishi wrote: > Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi > --- > Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 7 +++++++ > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt > index 966276b..977290c 100644 > --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt > +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt > @@ -456,6 +456,13 @@ Note the major differences in `N` and `P` over '\--full-history': > removed completely, because it had one parent and is TREESAME. > -- > > +The '\--simplify-by-decoration' option can be used to treat commits that > +are not referenced by tags as TREESAME, and treat commits that are tagged > +as !TREESAME (even when they have exactly the same tree as their parents). > +This can be used when you are only interested in the big picture of the > +topology of the history. > + > + I prefer the other way around, first what it does, and then how it does it (but it is a general comment about the help in "History Simplification", at least when viewing the help for "git log"). And you should rewrite the line 416: Finally, there is a fourth simplification mode available as it is no longer "Finally". Santi