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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-log.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index ac2694d04c..da1c2c6fd7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ Note that this affects all diff-based output types, e.g. those produced by --stat etc. --log-size:: - Before the log message print out its size in bytes. Intended - mainly for porcelain tools consumption. If Git is unable to - produce a valid value size is set to zero. - Note that only message is considered, if also a diff is shown - its size is not included. + + Include a line ``log size <number>'' in the output for each commit, + where <number> is the length of that commit's message in bytes. + Intended to speed up tools that read log messages from `git log` + output by allowing them to allocate space in advance. -L <start>,<end>:<file>, -L :<regex>:<file>:: |