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[PATCH 2/2] Document "git log --simplify-by-decoration"

From
Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date
Nov 10, 2008, 09:58 UTC
Message-ID
<20081110185817.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
---
 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.
+
+
 ifdef::git-rev-list[]
 Bisection Helpers
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- 
1.6.0.2

-- 
Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/
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