From: Nanako Shiraishi Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:58:17 GMT Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Document "git log --simplify-by-decoration" Message-ID: <20081110185817.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> 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. + + ifdef::git-rev-list[] Bisection Helpers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 1.6.0.2 -- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/