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| author | Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> | 2006-10-26 23:32:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-10-26 18:53:18 -0700 |
| commit | a8ebdb90f9e7017aa47c7824c91dfb0dd231ac85 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b80465f3e51fc2eee56fa5c496443c39e7c98cf /Documentation/git-cherry.txt | |
| parent | ac1a1f9927b01df6c50a1e29d92c6e79e2daadff (diff) | |
| download | git-a8ebdb90f9e7017aa47c7824c91dfb0dd231ac85.tar.gz git-a8ebdb90f9e7017aa47c7824c91dfb0dd231ac85.tar.xz | |
git-cherry: document limit and add diagram
This patch adds the diagram from the long usage string of git-cherry to
its documentation, and documents the third option. I changed some of
the + to - in order to save the reader from wondering where they might
fit into the picture.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-cherry.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cherry.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt index e1bf8ee25..27b67b81a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-cherry - Find commits not merged upstream SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-cherry' [-v] <upstream> [<head>] +'git-cherry' [-v] <upstream> [<head>] [<limit>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -18,7 +18,22 @@ Every commit that doesn't exist in the <upstream> branch has its id (sha1) reported, prefixed by a symbol. The ones that have equivalent change already in the <upstream> branch are prefixed with a minus (-) sign, and those -that only exist in the <head> branch are prefixed with a plus (+) symbol. +that only exist in the <head> branch are prefixed with a plus (+) symbol: + + __*__*__*__*__> <upstream> + / + fork-point + \__+__+__-__+__+__-__+__> <head> + + +If a <limit> has been given then the commits along the <head> branch up +to and including <limit> are not reported: + + __*__*__*__*__> <upstream> + / + fork-point + \__*__*__<limit>__-__+__> <head> + Because git-cherry compares the changeset rather than the commit id (sha1), you can use git-cherry to find out if a commit you made locally |