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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] log: Improve description of '-<n>' option in documentation
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:58:51 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282422531-29673-3-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282422531-29673-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

The earlier description of the '-<n>' option was misleading- the user
would have expected to be able to use it to limit the number of
commits shown when specifying a revision range, for example. In
reality, the option simply instructs the log to walk the topmost <n>
commits. Also update the meaning of the same option in the
git-format-patch documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-format-patch.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-log.txt          |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 4b3f5ba..df77474 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS
 include::diff-options.txt[]
 
 -<n>::
-	Limits the number of patches to prepare.
+	Prepare patches from the topmost <n> commits.
 
 -o <dir>::
 --output-directory <dir>::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 83e4ee3..ca02206 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 
 -<n>::
-	Limits the number of commits to show.
+	Show the topmost <n> commits.
 
 <since>..<until>::
 	Show only commits between the named two commits.  When
-- 
1.7.2.2.409.gdbb11.dirty

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-21 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-21 20:28 [PATCH 0/2] log/ format-patch improvements Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-21 20:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-format-patch: Print a diagnostic message when ignoring commits Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-21 20:28 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2010-08-25  8:44 ` [PATCH 0/2] log/ format-patch improvements Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-25 20:54   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-26  5:34     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-26  5:46       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-26  7:06         ` Thomas Rast
2010-08-26 15:37         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-26 17:52           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-25 22:09   ` Junio C Hamano

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