Merge branch 'rj/log-decorate-auto'

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-log.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 03f958029ad7a35ec29f111217cd76ba21de9b5e..dec379b3e2bd58c74dba61a2a5207a38e702278c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -29,12 +29,14 @@ OPTIONS
        (works only for a single file).
 
 --no-decorate::
---decorate[=short|full|no]::
+--decorate[=short|full|auto|no]::
        Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown. If 'short' is
        specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/', 'refs/tags/' and
        'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is specified, the
-       full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. The default option
-       is 'short'.
+       full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. If 'auto' is
+       specified, then if the output is going to a terminal, the ref names
+       are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref names are
+       shown. The default option is 'short'.
 
 --source::
        Print out the ref name given on the command line by which each