git-commit: document log message formatting convention

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt
index 98dea6125da78fa74800925b57dad2f002b1d6f6..c210b9af6bb4ce09d061e24715b07cd64887d54c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-show.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-<commitid>::
-       ID of the commit to show.
+<object>::
+       The name of the object to show.
 
 include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ EXAMPLES
 --------
 
 git show v1.0.0::
-       Shows the tag `v1.0.0`.
+       Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
+       points at.
 
 git show v1.0.0^{tree}::
        Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
@@ -54,10 +55,16 @@ git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile
        Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
        of the branch `master`.
 
+Discussion
+----------
+
+include::i18n.txt[]
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>.  Significantly enhanced by
+Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>.
 
 
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