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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-07-15 10:47:01 +0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-07-15 10:47:01 +0400 |
commit | b773fc34a0425790db7fe7c6a2d02d742ff41081 (patch) | |
tree | 27f2e05802b258f82f3ab254f380be9e8e264524 /Documentation | |
parent | 633ce9a3ba973acf19a122e1359b7ae724887d70 (diff) | |
parent | 049716b370f2cebdbdeb278eb2a8c4eff8ed0acd (diff) |
Merge branch 'jc/branch-merged'
* jc/branch-merged:
branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commit
branch --contains: default to HEAD
parse-options: add PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT flag
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-branch.txt
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-branch.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index b3e62ed011..fc5a4a602f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -8,24 +8,27 @@ git-branch - List, create, or delete branches SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git branch' [--color | --no-color] [-r | -a] [--merged | --no-merged] - [-v [--abbrev=<length> | --no-abbrev]] - [--contains <commit>] +'git branch' [--color | --no-color] [-r | -a] + [-v [--abbrev=<length> | --no-abbrev]] + [(--merged | --no-merged | --contains) [<commit>]] 'git branch' [--track | --no-track] [-l] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>] 'git branch' (-m | -M) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch> 'git branch' (-d | -D) [-r] <branchname>... DESCRIPTION ----------- -With no arguments given a list of existing branches -will be shown, the current branch will be highlighted with an asterisk. -Option `-r` causes the remote-tracking branches to be listed, -and option `-a` shows both. -With `--contains <commit>`, shows only the branches that -contains the named commit (in other words, the branches whose -tip commits are descendant of the named commit). -With `--merged`, only branches merged into HEAD will be listed, and -with `--no-merged` only branches not merged into HEAD will be listed. + +With no arguments, existing branches are listed, the current branch will +be highlighted with an asterisk. Option `-r` causes the remote-tracking +branches to be listed, and option `-a` shows both. + +With `--contains`, shows only the branches that contains the named commit +(in other words, the branches whose tip commits are descendant of the +named commit). With `--merged`, only branches merged into the named +commit (i.e. the branches whose tip commits are reachable from the named +commit) will be listed. With `--no-merged` only branches not merged into +the named commit will be listed. Missing <commit> argument defaults to +'HEAD' (i.e. the tip of the current branch). In its second form, a new branch named <branchname> will be created. It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>. |