Documentation: add shell guidelines

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index c662f41c1dce8ee69113dbb35298bd5c97e831b7..74a9d7edb45815a55fcc1e5c13cd78141b1d4190 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,16 @@ foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which `git config
        Do not perform optional operations that require locks. This is
        equivalent to setting the `GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS` to `0`.
 
+--list-cmds=group[,group...]::
+       List commands by group. This is an internal/experimental
+       option and may change or be removed in the future. Supported
+       groups are: builtins, parseopt (builtin commands that use
+       parse-options), main (all commands in libexec directory),
+       others (all other commands in `$PATH` that have git- prefix),
+       list-<category> (see categories in command-list.txt),
+       nohelpers (exclude helper commands), alias and config
+       (retrieve command list from config variable completion.commands)
+
 GIT COMMANDS
 ------------
 
@@ -589,8 +599,8 @@ trace messages into this file descriptor.
 +
 Alternatively, if the variable is set to an absolute path
 (starting with a '/' character), Git will interpret this
-as a file path and will try to write the trace messages
-into it.
+as a file path and will try to append the trace messages
+to it.
 +
 Unsetting the variable, or setting it to empty, "0" or
 "false" (case insensitive) disables trace messages.