DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Many git Porcelainish commands take mixture of flags
+Many git porcelainish commands take mixture of flags
(i.e. parameters that begin with a dash '-') and parameters
meant for underlying `git-rev-list` command they use internally
and flags and parameters for other commands they use as the
--short, --short=number::
Instead of outputting the full SHA1 values of object names try to
- abbriviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified
+ abbreviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified
7 is used. The minimum length is 4.
--since=datestring, --after=datestring::
happen to have both heads/master and tags/master, you can
explicitly say 'heads/master' to tell git which one you mean.
-* A suffix '@' followed by a date specification such as 'yesterday'
- (24 hours ago) or '1 month 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour 1 second ago'
- to specify the value of the ref at a prior point in time.
- This suffix may only be used immediately following a ref name
- and the ref must have an existing log ($GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>).
+* A suffix '@' followed by a date specification enclosed in a brace
+ pair (e.g. '\{yesterday\}', '\{1 month 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour 1
+ second ago\}' or '\{1979-02-26 18:30:00\}') to specify the value
+ of the ref at a prior point in time. This suffix may only be
+ used immediately following a ref name and the ref must have an
+ existing log ($GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>).
* A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of
that commit object. '{caret}<n>' means the <n>th parent (i.e.