Documentation: reporting bugs

diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index daa64d4d8165a0dfe5d87f54cd44c4bb6b476eba..bc1ac77495347967c941298e2da38f76d5d124c6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-shortlog - Summarize 'git log' output
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-git-log --pretty=short | 'git-shortlog' [-h] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-w]
-git-shortlog [-n|--numbered] [-s|--summary] [-e|--email] [-w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]] [<committish>...]
+git log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [-h] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-w]
+'git shortlog' [-n|--numbered] [-s|--summary] [-e|--email] [-w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]] <commit>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ the first line of the commit message will be shown.
 
 Additionally, "[PATCH]" will be stripped from the commit description.
 
+If no revisions are passed on the command line and either standard input
+is not a terminal or there is no current branch, 'git shortlog' will
+output a summary of the log read from standard input, without
+reference to the current repository.
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
@@ -39,25 +44,30 @@ OPTIONS
 --email::
        Show the email address of each author.
 
+--format[='<format>']::
+       Instead of the commit subject, use some other information to
+       describe each commit.  '<format>' can be any string accepted
+       by the `--format` option of 'git log', such as '{asterisk} [%h] %s'.
+       (See the "PRETTY FORMATS" section of linkgit:git-log[1].)
+
+       Each pretty-printed commit will be rewrapped before it is shown.
+
 -w[<width>[,<indent1>[,<indent2>]]]::
        Linewrap the output by wrapping each line at `width`.  The first
        line of each entry is indented by `indent1` spaces, and the second
        and subsequent lines are indented by `indent2` spaces. `width`,
        `indent1`, and `indent2` default to 76, 6 and 9 respectively.
 
-FILES
------
 
-If the file `.mailmap` exists, it will be used for mapping author
-email addresses to a real author name. One mapping per line, first
-the author name followed by the email address enclosed by
-'<' and '>'. Use hash '#' for comments. Example:
+MAPPING AUTHORS
+---------------
+
+The `.mailmap` feature is used to coalesce together commits by the same
+person in the shortlog, where their name and/or email address was
+spelled differently.
+
+include::mailmap.txt[]
 
-------------
-# Keep alphabetized
-Adam Morrow <adam@localhost.localdomain>
-Eve Jones <eve@laptop.(none)>
-------------
 
 Author
 ------