From 60aa9cf8f370b69eb7feaad2e1cbcd04280bc799 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:12:48 -0600 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-show.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/git-show.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt index 2049c60f75..f0a8a1aff3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3