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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-07-03 22:56:59 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-07-03 22:56:59 -0700
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parented5f07a6fdc5653e24a5bd6c216d12bc878496bd (diff)
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Merge branch 'maint'
* maint: Document -<n> for git-format-patch glossary: add 'reflog' diff --no-index: fix --name-status with added files Don't smash stack when $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES is too long
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/glossary.txt6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index e5638102ec..6cbcf937bc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ OPTIONS
-------
include::diff-options.txt[]
+-<n>::
+ Limits the number of patches to prepare.
+
-o|--output-directory <dir>::
Use <dir> to store the resulting files, instead of the
current working directory.
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt
index e903abfeb8..3f7b1e42b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt
@@ -330,6 +330,12 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a
denotes a particular <<def_object,object>>. These may be stored in
`$GIT_DIR/refs/`.
+[[def_reflog]]reflog::
+ A reflog shows the local "history" of a ref. In other words,
+ it can tell you what the 3rd last revision in _this_ repository
+ was, and what was the current state in _this_ repository,
+ yesterday 9:14pm. See gitlink:git-reflog[1] for details.
+
[[def_refspec]]refspec::
A "refspec" is used by <<def_fetch,fetch>> and
<<def_push,push>> to describe the mapping between remote