user-manual: use pithier example commit

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 3fa45b81cc6de7b5104d343538c9ad040c208ce1..c3c2043d183e0e6c7292f5af7c28af57958c4dcd 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -21,8 +21,11 @@ SYNOPSIS
             [ \--stdin ]
             [ \--topo-order ]
             [ \--parents ]
+            [ \--left-right ]
+            [ \--cherry-pick ]
             [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
             [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
+            [ \--date={local|relative|default} ]
             [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
             [ \--pretty | \--header ]
             [ \--bisect ]
@@ -84,13 +87,24 @@ Using these options, gitlink:git-rev-list[1] will act similar to the
 more specialized family of commit log tools: gitlink:git-log[1],
 gitlink:git-show[1], and gitlink:git-whatchanged[1]
 
-include::pretty-formats.txt[]
+include::pretty-options.txt[]
 
 --relative-date::
 
-       Show dates relative to the current time, e.g. "2 hours ago".
+       Synonym for `--date=relative`.
+
+--date={relative,local,default}::
+
        Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such
        as when using "--pretty".
++
+`--date=relative` shows dates relative to the current time,
+e.g. "2 hours ago".
++
+`--date=local` shows timestamps in user's local timezone.
++
+`--date=default` shows timestamps in the original timezone
+(either committer's or author's).
 
 --header::
 
@@ -101,6 +115,36 @@ include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 
        Print the parents of the commit.
 
+--left-right::
+
+       Mark which side of a symmetric diff 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 `-`.
++
+For example, if you have this topology:
++
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+             y---b---b  branch B
+            / \ /
+           /   .
+          /   / \
+         o---x---a---a  branch A
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
++
+you would get an output line this:
++
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+       $ git rev-list --left-right --boundary --pretty=oneline A...B
+
+       >bbbbbbb... 3rd on b
+       >bbbbbbb... 2nd on b
+       <aaaaaaa... 3rd on a
+       <aaaaaaa... 2nd on a
+       -yyyyyyy... 1st on b
+       -xxxxxxx... 1st on a
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Diff Formatting
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -163,12 +207,12 @@ limiting may be applied.
 --author='pattern', --committer='pattern'::
 
        Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
-       header lines that match the specified pattern.
+       header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).
 
 --grep='pattern'::
 
        Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
-       matches the specified pattern.
+       matches the specified pattern (regular expression).
 
 --remove-empty::
 
@@ -193,6 +237,20 @@ limiting may be applied.
        In addition to the '<commit>' listed on the command
        line, read them from the standard input.
 
+--cherry-pick::
+
+       Omit any commit that introduces the same change as
+       another commit on the "other side" when the set of
+       commits are limited with symmetric difference.
++
+For example, if you have two branches, `A` and `B`, a usual way
+to list all commits on only one side of them is with
+`--left-right`, like the example above in the description of
+that option.  It however shows the commits that were cherry-picked
+from the other branch (for example, "3rd on b" may be cherry-picked
+from branch A).  With this option, such pairs of commits are
+excluded from the output.
+
 -g, --walk-reflogs::
 
        Instead of walking the commit ancestry chain, walk
@@ -309,6 +367,10 @@ These options are mostly targeted for packing of git repositories.
        Only useful with '--objects'; print the object IDs that are not
        in packs.
 
+
+include::pretty-formats.txt[]
+
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>