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patchDocumentation: git-rev-list's "patterns"

Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: git-rev-list's "patterns"

## tl;dr

One message between May 18, 2007 and May 18, 2007. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Petr Baudis· May 18, 2007, 23:21 UTC · lore

git-rev-list(1) talks about patterns as values for the --grep, --committed etc. parameters, without going into detail. This patch mentions that these patterns are actually regexps.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
---
 Documentation/git-rev-list.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Show changes to Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +2 −2
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index ab90a22..c3c2043 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -207,12 +207,12 @@ limiting may be applied.
 --author='pattern', --committer='pattern'::
 
 	Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
-	header lines that match the specified pattern.
+	header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).
 
 --grep='pattern'::
 
 	Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
-	matches the specified pattern.
+	matches the specified pattern (regular expression).
 
 --remove-empty::
 

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