rev-list: make it obvious that we do not support notes

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 74aa01a0ec27b6cc0fbb9763b8e583a3f996da25..8d6c5cec4c5edc904a5f2d7595fd8943457f550d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -37,8 +37,12 @@ people using 80-column terminals.
        in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
        command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
        preferred by the user.  For non plumbing commands this
-       defaults to UTF-8.
+       defaults to UTF-8. Note that if an object claims to be encoded
+       in `X` and we are outputting in `X`, we will output the object
+       verbatim; this means that invalid sequences in the original
+       commit may be copied to the output.
 
+ifndef::git-rev-list[]
 --notes[=<ref>]::
        Show the notes (see linkgit:git-notes[1]) that annotate the
        commit, when showing the commit log message.  This is the default
@@ -70,6 +74,7 @@ being displayed. Examples: "--notes=foo" will show only notes from
 --[no-]standard-notes::
        These options are deprecated. Use the above --notes/--no-notes
        options instead.
+endif::git-rev-list[]
 
 --show-signature::
        Check the validity of a signed commit object by passing the signature