SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git log' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[
\--] <path>...]
+'git log' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[--] <path>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref names are
shown. The default option is 'short'.
+--decorate-refs=<pattern>::
+--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>::
+ If no `--decorate-refs` is given, pretend as if all refs were
+ included. For each candidate, do not use it for decoration if it
+ matches any patterns given to `--decorate-refs-exclude` or if it
+ doesn't match any of the patterns given to `--decorate-refs`.
+
--source::
Print out the ref name given on the command line by which each
commit was reached.
ways to spell <revision range>, see the 'Specifying Ranges'
section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
+[--] <path>...::
Show only commits that are enough to explain how the files
that match the specified paths came to be. See 'History
Simplification' below for details and other simplification
modes.
+
-Paths may need to be prefixed with ``\-- '' to separate them from
+Paths may need to be prefixed with `--` to separate them from
options or the revision range, when confusion arises.
include::rev-list-options.txt[]
`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
+ The `--` is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named
'gitk'
`git log --name-status release..test`::