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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2010-11-09 11:12:48 -0600
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-11-09 09:42:57 -0800
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Documentation: document show -s
Git's diff machinery has supported a -s (silence diff output) option as far back as v0.99~900 (Silent flag for show-diff, 2005-04-13), but the option is only advertised in an odd corner of the git diff-tree manual. The main use is to retrieve basic metadata about a commit: git show -s rev Explain this in the 'git log' manual and provide an example in the 'git show' examples section. This is kind of a cop-out, since it would be more useful to explain it in the 'git show' manual proper, which says: The command takes options applicable to the git diff-tree command to control how the changes the commit introduces are shown. This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. Fixing that is a larger task for another day. Reported-by: Will Hall <will@gnatter.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ git show v1.0.0::
git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
+git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}::
+ Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the
+ tag `v1.0.0`.
+
git show next~10:Documentation/README::
Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch