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diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 0498e7b..5796821 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-log - Show commit logs
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git log' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[--] <path>...]
+'git log' [<options>] [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -45,13 +45,23 @@ OPTIONS
--decorate-refs=<pattern>::
--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>::
- If no `--decorate-refs` is given, pretend as if all refs were
- included. For each candidate, do not use it for decoration if it
+ For each candidate reference, do not use it for decoration if it
matches any patterns given to `--decorate-refs-exclude` or if it
doesn't match any of the patterns given to `--decorate-refs`. The
`log.excludeDecoration` config option allows excluding refs from
the decorations, but an explicit `--decorate-refs` pattern will
override a match in `log.excludeDecoration`.
++
+If none of these options or config settings are given, then references are
+used as decoration if they match `HEAD`, `refs/heads/`, `refs/remotes/`,
+`refs/stash/`, or `refs/tags/`.
+
+--clear-decorations::
+ When specified, this option clears all previous `--decorate-refs`
+ or `--decorate-refs-exclude` options and relaxes the default
+ decoration filter to include all references. This option is
+ assumed if the config value `log.initialDecorationSet` is set to
+ `all`.
--source::
Print out the ref name given on the command line by which each
@@ -81,13 +91,13 @@ produced by `--stat`, etc.
include::line-range-options.txt[]
-<revision range>::
+<revision-range>::
Show only commits in the specified revision range. When no
- <revision range> is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the
+ <revision-range> is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the
whole history leading to the current commit). `origin..HEAD`
specifies all the commits reachable from the current commit
(i.e. `HEAD`), but not from `origin`. For a complete list of
- ways to spell <revision range>, see the 'Specifying Ranges'
+ ways to spell <revision-range>, see the 'Specifying Ranges'
section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
[--] <path>...::
@@ -110,11 +120,11 @@ By default, `git log` does not generate any diff output. The options
below can be used to show the changes made by each commit.
Note that unless one of `--diff-merges` variants (including short
-`-m`, `-c`, and `--cc` options) is explicitly given, merge commits
+`-m`, `-c`, `--cc`, and `--dd` options) is explicitly given, merge commits
will not show a diff, even if a diff format like `--patch` is
selected, nor will they match search options like `-S`. The exception
is when `--first-parent` is in use, in which case `first-parent` is
-the default format.
+the default format for merge commits.
:git-log: 1
:diff-merges-default: `off`
@@ -199,47 +209,11 @@ i18n.logOutputEncoding::
Defaults to the value of `i18n.commitEncoding` if set, and UTF-8
otherwise.
-log.date::
- Default format for human-readable dates. (Compare the
- `--date` option.) Defaults to "default", which means to write
- dates like `Sat May 8 19:35:34 2010 -0500`.
-+
-If the format is set to "auto:foo" and the pager is in use, format
-"foo" will be the used for the date format. Otherwise "default" will
-be used.
-
-log.follow::
- If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when
- a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations as `--follow`,
- i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files and does not work well
- on non-linear history.
-
-log.showRoot::
- If `false`, `git log` and related commands will not treat the
- initial commit as a big creation event. Any root commits in
- `git log -p` output would be shown without a diff attached.
- The default is `true`.
-
-log.showSignature::
- If `true`, `git log` and related commands will act as if the
- `--show-signature` option was passed to them.
-
-mailmap.*::
- See linkgit:git-shortlog[1].
-
-notes.displayRef::
- Which refs, in addition to the default set by `core.notesRef`
- or `GIT_NOTES_REF`, to read notes from when showing commit
- messages with the `log` family of commands. See
- linkgit:git-notes[1].
-+
-May be an unabbreviated ref name or a glob and may be specified
-multiple times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist,
-but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored.
-+
-This setting can be disabled by the `--no-notes` option,
-overridden by the `GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF` environment variable,
-and overridden by the `--notes=<ref>` option.
+include::includes/cmd-config-section-rest.txt[]
+
+include::config/log.txt[]
+
+include::config/notes.txt[]
GIT
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