Brian GernhardtAdd a quick paragraph explaining the --topics option for show-branch. The explanation is an abbreviated version of the commit message from d320a5437f8304cf9ea3ee1898e49d643e005738.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> ---
git blame helped me find the original description of this feature. I'm not sure this is the best explanation possible, but it gives both a quick description and a way to figure out what it's doing. Which is hopefully better than nothing.
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt index a2445a4..a9a0e0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git-show-branch' [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--topo-order] [--current] [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] - [--no-name | --sha1-name] [<rev> | <glob>]... + [--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics] [<rev> | <glob>]... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ OPTIONS of "master"), name them with the unique prefix of their object names. +--topics:: + Shows only commits that are NOT on the first branch given. + This helps track topic branches by hiding any commit that + is already in the main line of development. When given + "git show-branch --topics master topic1 topic2", this + will show the revisions given by "git rev-list ^master + topic1 topic2" + Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options are mutually exclusive.
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