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

From
Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date
Feb 18, 2006, 01:11 UTC
Message-ID
<20060218011136.GC2562@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>

--- commit 013b99654ee464856d266a72f0203d0fee2b0d11 tree 3c961d6ebb8b9805ee3950ec081679de15f5a9ba parent 16e2efc524d181cf46dcb252532139a0aff4a28f author Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:05:11 +0100 committer Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@antimatter.localdomain> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:05:11 +0100

 Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index d638bfc..1662e06 100644
--- 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.
-- 
Jonas Fonseca
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