summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-show-branch.txt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-show-branch.txt39
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
index 5cc2fce..c771c89 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ git-show-branch - Show branches and their commits
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git show-branch' [-a|--all] [-r|--remotes] [--topo-order | --date-order]
+'git show-branch' [-a | --all] [-r | --remotes] [--topo-order | --date-order]
[--current] [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [--sparse]
[--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base]
[--no-name | --sha1-name] [--topics]
[(<rev> | <glob>)...]
-'git show-branch' (-g|--reflog)[=<n>[,<base>]] [--list] [<ref>]
+'git show-branch' (-g | --reflog)[=<n>[,<base>]] [--list] [<ref>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ OPTIONS
--current::
With this option, the command includes the current
- branch to the list of revs to be shown when it is not
+ branch in the list of revs to be shown when it is not
given on the command line.
--topo-order::
@@ -74,8 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS
that is the common ancestor of all the branches. This
flag tells the command to go <n> more common commits
beyond that. When <n> is negative, display only the
- <reference>s given, without showing the commit ancestry
- tree.
+ <ref>s given, without showing the commit ancestry tree.
--list::
Synonym to `--more=-1`
@@ -88,8 +87,8 @@ OPTIONS
the case of three or more commits.
--independent::
- Among the <reference>s given, display only the ones that
- cannot be reached from any other <reference>.
+ Among the <ref>s given, display only the ones that cannot be
+ reached from any other <ref>.
--no-name::
Do not show naming strings for each commit.
@@ -126,25 +125,26 @@ OPTIONS
default to color output.
Same as `--color=never`.
-Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options
+Note that --more, --list, --independent, and --merge-base options
are mutually exclusive.
OUTPUT
------
-Given N <references>, the first N lines are the one-line
-description from their commit message. The branch head that is
-pointed at by $GIT_DIR/HEAD is prefixed with an asterisk `*`
-character while other heads are prefixed with a `!` character.
-Following these N lines, one-line log for each commit is
+Given N <ref>s, the first N lines are the one-line description from
+their commit message. The branch head that is pointed at by
+$GIT_DIR/HEAD is prefixed with an asterisk `*` character while other
+heads are prefixed with a `!` character.
+
+Following these N lines, a one-line log for each commit is
displayed, indented N places. If a commit is on the I-th
branch, the I-th indentation character shows a `+` sign;
otherwise it shows a space. Merge commits are denoted by
a `-` sign. Each commit shows a short name that
can be used as an extended SHA-1 to name that commit.
-The following example shows three branches, "master", "fixes"
+The following example shows three branches, "master", "fixes",
and "mhf":
------------------------------------------------
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ $ git show-branch master fixes mhf
! [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching.
---
+ [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching.
- + [mhf~1] Use git-octopus when pulling more than one heads.
+ + [mhf~1] Use git-octopus when pulling more than one head.
+ [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset"
+ [mhf~2] "git fetch --force".
+ [mhf~3] Use .git/remote/origin, not .git/branches/origin.
@@ -197,7 +197,14 @@ $ git show-branch --reflog="10,1 hour ago" --list master
shows 10 reflog entries going back from the tip as of 1 hour ago.
Without `--list`, the output also shows how these tips are
-topologically related with each other.
+topologically related to each other.
+
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+include::includes/cmd-config-section-all.txt[]
+
+include::config/showbranch.txt[]
GIT
---