log: add log.mailmap configuration option

diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 1f906208f9514180fe9f20293ab28ce8180b5357..a99be97335904f73465ff148b42b04230ed97d3e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ each commit introduces are shown.
 OPTIONS
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--<n>::
-       Limits the number of commits to show.
-       Note that this is a commit limiting option, see below.
-
 <since>..<until>::
        Show only commits between the named two commits.  When
        either <since> or <until> is omitted, it defaults to
@@ -51,6 +47,11 @@ OPTIONS
        Print out the ref name given on the command line by which each
        commit was reached.
 
+--use-mailmap::
+       Use mailmap file to map author and committer names and email
+       to canonical real names and email addresses. See
+       linkgit:git-shortlog[1].
+
 --full-diff::
        Without this flag, "git log -p <path>..." shows commits that
        touch the specified paths, and diffs about the same specified
@@ -137,6 +138,8 @@ Examples
        This makes sense only when following a strict policy of merging all
        topic branches when staying on a single integration branch.
 
+`git log -3`::
+       Limits the number of commits to show to 3.
 
 Discussion
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