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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt index cc7da3087..39e0682ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-show-branch - Show branches and their commits. SYNOPSIS -------- -'git show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=<n>] [--merge-base] <reference>...' +'git show-branch [--all] [--heads] [--tags] [--more=<n> | --list | --independent | --merge-base] <reference>...' DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -29,13 +29,25 @@ OPTIONS Usually the command stops output upon showing the commit that is the common ancestor of all the branches. This flag tells the command to go <n> more common commits - beyond that. + beyond that. When <n> is negative, display only the + <reference>s given, without showing the commit ancestry + tree. + +--list:: + Synomym to `--more=-1` --merge-base:: Instead of showing the commit list, just act like the 'git-merge-base -a' command, except that it can accept more than two heads. +--independent:: + Among the <reference>s given, display only the ones that + cannot be reached from any other <reference>. + +Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options +are mutually exclusive. + OUTPUT ------ |