status: show more info than "currently not on any branch"

diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 6c934660d7bf0b5822bf2a7e6f8eb68cecbfc501..22c0d6e4b1074b71468ac1c9b16d7eeb0434e225 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ each commit introduces are shown.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
--<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
@@ -69,10 +70,13 @@ produced by --stat etc.
        its size is not included.
 
 [\--] <path>...::
-       Show only commits that affect any of the specified paths. To
-       prevent confusion with options and branch names, paths may need
-       to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from options or
-       refnames.
+       Show only commits that are enough to explain how the files
+       that match the specified paths came to be.  See "History
+       Simplification" below for details and other simplification
+       modes.
++
+To prevent confusion with options and branch names, paths may need to
+be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from options or refnames.
 
 include::rev-list-options.txt[]
 
@@ -97,7 +101,7 @@ Examples
        Show all commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any file
        in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
 
-`git log --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk`::
+`git log --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk`::
 
        Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'.
        The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named
@@ -134,6 +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
 ----------
@@ -166,7 +172,7 @@ log.showroot::
        `git log -p` output would be shown without a diff attached.
        The default is `true`.
 
-mailmap.file::
+mailmap.*::
        See linkgit:git-shortlog[1].
 
 notes.displayRef::