Merge branch 'jk/tag-contains-ab' (early part) into maint

diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index de5c0d37a5c1c8c948aa01e276c3e198eb617be6..771a3565bd10f956899ba95f6ce794bee5f1dede 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-log - Show commit logs
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git log' [<options>] [<since>..<until>] [[\--] <path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -68,10 +69,13 @@ 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[]