Merge branch 'maint' of git://repo.or.cz/git-gui into maint
[gitweb.git] / Documentation / git-rev-list.txt
index c742117595cd8ae5ab371a7ba21513a419af7996..11ce395c982d5eb217d13441c2668884cc371d22 100644 (file)
@@ -21,12 +21,14 @@ SYNOPSIS
             [ \--stdin ]
             [ \--topo-order ]
             [ \--parents ]
+            [ \--left-right ]
             [ \--encoding[=<encoding>] ]
             [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
             [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
             [ \--pretty | \--header ]
             [ \--bisect ]
             [ \--merge ]
+            [ \--reverse ]
             [ \--walk-reflogs ]
             <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ]
 
@@ -99,6 +101,36 @@ include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 
        Print the parents of the commit.
 
+--left-right::
+
+       Mark which side of a symmetric diff a commit is reachable from.
+       Commits from the left side are prefixed with `<` and those from
+       the right with `>`.  If combined with `--boundary`, those
+       commits are prefixed with `-`.
++
+For example, if you have this topology:
++
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+             y---b---b  branch B
+            / \ /
+           /   .
+          /   / \
+         o---x---a---a  branch A
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
++
+you would get an output line this:
++
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+       $ git rev-list --left-right --boundary --pretty=oneline A...B
+
+       >bbbbbbb... 3rd on b
+       >bbbbbbb... 2nd on b
+       <aaaaaaa... 3rd on a
+       <aaaaaaa... 2nd on a
+       -yyyyyyy... 1st on b
+       -xxxxxxx... 1st on a
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Diff Formatting
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -266,6 +298,10 @@ By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order.
        parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things
        are still ordered in the commit timestamp order.
 
+--reverse::
+
+       Output the commits in reverse order.
+
 Object Traversal
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~