doc: revisions: extra clarification of <rev>^! notation effects

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 31bee069aa90d2f1c12f709c5e60e71ce4ffa199..f7645cc72d91f4974bc31b5de6f75636eb7d8ff1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ excluded from the output.
 
 --left-only::
 --right-only::
-       List only commits on the respective side of a symmetric range,
+       List only commits on the respective side of a symmetric difference,
        i.e. only those which would be marked `<` resp. `>` by
        `--left-right`.
 +
@@ -729,6 +729,11 @@ format, often found in email messages.
 +
 `--date=raw` shows the date in the internal raw Git format `%s %z` format.
 +
+`--date=format:...` feeds the format `...` to your system `strftime`.
+Use `--date=format:%c` to show the date in your system locale's
+preferred format.  See the `strftime` manual for a complete list of
+format placeholders.
++
 `--date=default` shows timestamps in the original time zone
 (either committer's or author's).
 
@@ -752,7 +757,7 @@ ifdef::git-rev-list[]
 endif::git-rev-list[]
 
 --left-right::
-       Mark which side of a symmetric diff a commit is reachable from.
+       Mark which side of a symmetric difference a commit is reachable from.
        Commits from the left side are prefixed with `<` and those from
        the right with `>`.  If combined with `--boundary`, those
        commits are prefixed with `-`.