[PATCH] Random documentation fixes

[git.git] / Documentation / git-rev-list.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 02ee93e..f386a3a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -22,65 +22,69 @@ that point. Their parents are implied. "git-rev-list foo bar ^baz" thus
 means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' and 'bar', but
 not in 'baz'".
 
-If *--pretty* is specified, print the contents of the commit changesets
-in human-readable form.
-
-The *--objects* flag causes 'git-rev-list' to print the object IDs of
-any object referenced by the listed commits. 'git-rev-list --objects foo
-^bar' thus means "send me all object IDs which I need to download if
-I have the commit object 'bar', but not 'foo'".
-
-The *--bisect* flag limits output to the one commit object which is
-roughly halfway between the included and excluded commits. Thus,
-if 'git-rev-list --bisect foo ^bar
-^baz' outputs 'midpoint', the output
-of 'git-rev-list foo ^midpoint' and 'git-rev-list midpoint
-^bar
-^baz'
-would be of roughly the same length. Finding the change which introduces
-a regression is thus reduced to a binary search: repeatedly generate and
-test new 'midpoint's until the commit chain is of length one.
-
-If *--merge-order* is specified, the commit history is decomposed into a
-unique sequence of minimal, non-linear epochs and maximal, linear epochs.
-Non-linear epochs are then linearised by sorting them into merge order, which
-is described below.
-
+OPTIONS
+-------
+--pretty::
+       Print the contents of the commit changesets in human-readable form.
+
+--objects::
+       Print the object IDs of any object referenced by the listed commits.
+       'git-rev-list --objects foo ^bar' thus means "send me all object IDs
+       which I need to download if I have the commit object 'bar', but
+       not 'foo'".
+
+--bisect::
+       Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway
+       between the included and excluded commits. Thus, if 'git-rev-list
+       --bisect foo ^bar ^baz' outputs 'midpoint', the output
+       of 'git-rev-list foo ^midpoint' and 'git-rev-list midpoint
+       ^bar ^baz' would be of roughly the same length. Finding the change
+       which introduces a regression is thus reduced to a binary search:
+       repeatedly generate and test new 'midpoint's until the commit chain
+       is of length one.
+
+--merge-order::
+       When specified the commit history is decomposed into a unique
+       sequence of minimal, non-linear epochs and maximal, linear epochs.
+       Non-linear epochs are then linearised by sorting them into merge
+       order, which is described below.
++
 Maximal, linear epochs correspond to periods of sequential development.
 Minimal, non-linear epochs correspond to periods of divergent development
 followed by a converging merge. The theory of epochs is described in more
 detail at
 link:http://blackcubes.dyndns.org/epoch/[http://blackcubes.dyndns.org/epoch/].
-
++
 The merge order for a non-linear epoch is defined as a linearisation for which
 the following invariants are true:
-
++
     1. if a commit P is reachable from commit N, commit P sorts after commit N
        in the linearised list.
     2. if Pi and Pj are any two parents of a merge M (with i < j), then any
        commit N, such that N is reachable from Pj but not reachable from Pi,
        sorts before all commits reachable from Pi.
-
++
 Invariant 1 states that later commits appear before earlier commits they are
 derived from.
-
++
 Invariant 2 states that commits unique to "later" parents in a merge, appear
 before all commits from "earlier" parents of a merge.
 
-If *--show-breaks* is specified, each item of the list is output with a
-2-character prefix consisting of one of: (|), (^), (=) followed by a space.
-
+--show-breaks::
+       Each item of the list is output with a 2-character prefix consisting
+       of one of: (|), (^), (=) followed by a space.
++
 Commits marked with (=) represent the boundaries of minimal, non-linear epochs
 and correspond either to the start of a period of divergent development or to
 the end of such a period.
-
++
 Commits marked with (|) are direct parents of commits immediately preceding
 the marked commit in the list.
-
++
 Commits marked with (^) are not parents of the immediately preceding commit.
 These "breaks" represent necessary discontinuities implied by trying to
 represent an arbtirary DAG in a linear form.
-
++
 *--show-breaks* is only valid if *--merge-order* is also specified.
 
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