Documentation: git-rev-list's "patterns"

PATCH New Petr Baudis 1 participant 1 message Jun 15, 2016 Documentation

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Petr Baudis

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2016-06-15 22:43 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 Documentation: git-rev-list's "patterns"

git-rev-list(1) talks about patterns as values for the --grep, --committed etc. parameters, without going into detail. This patch mentions that these patterns are actually regexps.

Signed-off-by Petr Baudis <[email protected]>

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 Documentation/git-rev-list.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +2 -2

index ab90a22..c3c2043 100644
@@ -207,12 +207,12 @@ limiting may be applied.
 --author='pattern', --committer='pattern'::
 
 	Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
-	header lines that match the specified pattern.
+	header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).
 
 --grep='pattern'::
 
 	Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
-	matches the specified pattern.
+	matches the specified pattern (regular expression).
 
 --remove-empty::