On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> wrote:
quoted text
> Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/rev-list-options.txt |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> index 966276b..977290c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> @@ -456,6 +456,13 @@ Note the major differences in `N` and `P` over '\--full-history':
>   removed completely, because it had one parent and is TREESAME.
>  --
>
> +The '\--simplify-by-decoration' option can be used to treat commits that
> +are not referenced by tags as TREESAME, and treat commits that are tagged
> +as !TREESAME (even when they have exactly the same tree as their parents).
> +This can be used when you are only interested in the big picture of the
> +topology of the history.
> +
> +

I prefer the other way around, first what it does, and then how it
does it (but it is a general comment about the help in "History
Simplification", at least when viewing the help for "git log"). And
you should rewrite the line 416:

Finally, there is a fourth simplification mode available

as it is no longer "Finally".

Santi
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