Introduce trivial new pager.c helper infrastructure

diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 13a3998302a2817bb36d7555f171311ce19a3d0c..e995d1b74bdbcedf3cc656ee06e939ec39a87795 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
---pretty=<format>:
+--pretty=<format>::
        Controls the way the commit log is formatted.
 
 --max-count=<n>::
@@ -30,6 +30,24 @@ OPTIONS
        Show only commits between the named two commits.
 
 
+Examples
+--------
+git log --no-merges::
+
+       Show the whole commit history, but skip any merges
+
+git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi::
+
+       Show all commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any file
+       in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
+
+git log --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk::
+
+       Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'.
+       The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named
+       'gitk'
+
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>