documentation: add tutorial for first contribution

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 2e4a67d3b7592cabb79188712c6c70a875543bc4..9cf983d24d630a78427798f60c5d6f45b0b64c19 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ has a line that matches `<pattern>`), unless otherwise noted.
 Note that these are applied before commit
 ordering and formatting options, such as `--reverse`.
 
---
-
 -<number>::
 -n <number>::
 --max-count=<number>::
@@ -308,8 +306,6 @@ ifdef::git-rev-list[]
        `<header>` text will be printed with each progress update.
 endif::git-rev-list[]
 
---
-
 History Simplification
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -734,15 +730,20 @@ specification contained in <path>.
 +
 The form '--filter=tree:<depth>' omits all blobs and trees whose depth
 from the root tree is >= <depth> (minimum depth if an object is located
-at multiple depths in the commits traversed). Currently, only <depth>=0
-is supported, which omits all blobs and trees.
+at multiple depths in the commits traversed). <depth>=0 will not include
+any trees or blobs unless included explicitly in the command-line (or
+standard input when --stdin is used). <depth>=1 will include only the
+tree and blobs which are referenced directly by a commit reachable from
+<commit> or an explicitly-given object. <depth>=2 is like <depth>=1
+while also including trees and blobs one more level removed from an
+explicitly-given commit or tree.
 
 --no-filter::
        Turn off any previous `--filter=` argument.
 
 --filter-print-omitted::
        Only useful with `--filter=`; prints a list of the objects omitted
-       by the filter.  Object IDs are prefixed with a ``~'' character.
+       by the filter.  Object IDs are prefixed with a ``~'' character.
 
 --missing=<missing-action>::
        A debug option to help with future "partial clone" development.
@@ -835,6 +836,13 @@ Note that the `-local` option does not affect the seconds-since-epoch
 value (which is always measured in UTC), but does switch the accompanying
 timezone value.
 +
+`--date=human` shows the timezone if the timezone does not match the
+current time-zone, and doesn't print the whole date if that matches
+(ie skip printing year for dates that are "this year", but also skip
+the whole date itself if it's in the last few days and we can just say
+what weekday it was).  For older dates the hour and minute is also
+omitted.
++
 `--date=unix` shows the date as a Unix epoch timestamp (seconds since
 1970).  As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local`
 has no effect.
@@ -952,6 +960,13 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options.
        the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks
        one of them without modification.
 
+--combined-all-paths::
+       This flag causes combined diffs (used for merge commits) to
+       list the name of the file from all parents.  It thus only has
+       effect when -c or --cc are specified, and is likely only
+       useful if filename changes are detected (i.e. when either
+       rename or copy detection have been requested).
+
 -m::
        This flag makes the merge commits show the full diff like
        regular commits; for each merge parent, a separate log entry