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 <will@gnatter.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt index 2049c60..f0a8a1a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ 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
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 7a42567..1aaaf5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ -t:: Show the tree objects in the diff output. This implies '-r'. + +-s:: + Suppress diff output. endif::git-rev-list[] Commit Limiting