t4034: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / rev-list-options.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 71a1fcc0939f791fe7f0423f15faf458dd0598f5..90ff9e2bea2e2fd0caf4744ed4e5c5e59f4c1243 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -182,6 +182,14 @@ explicitly.
        Pretend as if all objects mentioned by reflogs are listed on the
        command line as `<commit>`.
 
+--alternate-refs::
+       Pretend as if all objects mentioned as ref tips of alternate
+       repositories were listed on the command line. An alternate
+       repository is any repository whose object directory is specified
+       in `objects/info/alternates`.  The set of included objects may
+       be modified by `core.alternateRefsCommand`, etc. See
+       linkgit:git-config[1].
+
 --single-worktree::
        By default, all working trees will be examined by the
        following options when there are more than one (see
@@ -708,6 +716,16 @@ ifdef::git-rev-list[]
        Only useful with `--objects`; print the object IDs that are not
        in packs.
 
+--object-names::
+       Only useful with `--objects`; print the names of the object IDs
+       that are found. This is the default behavior.
+
+--no-object-names::
+       Only useful with `--objects`; does not print the names of the object
+       IDs that are found. This inverts `--object-names`. This flag allows
+       the output to be more easily parsed by commands such as
+       linkgit:git-cat-file[1].
+
 --filter=<filter-spec>::
        Only useful with one of the `--objects*`; omits objects (usually
        blobs) from the list of printed objects.  The '<filter-spec>'
@@ -738,6 +756,22 @@ explicitly-given commit or tree.
 Note that the form '--filter=sparse:path=<path>' that wants to read
 from an arbitrary path on the filesystem has been dropped for security
 reasons.
++
+Multiple '--filter=' flags can be specified to combine filters. Only
+objects which are accepted by every filter are included.
++
+The form '--filter=combine:<filter1>+<filter2>+...<filterN>' can also be
+used to combined several filters, but this is harder than just repeating
+the '--filter' flag and is usually not necessary. Filters are joined by
+'{plus}' and individual filters are %-encoded (i.e. URL-encoded).
+Besides the '{plus}' and '%' characters, the following characters are
+reserved and also must be encoded: `~!@#$^&*()[]{}\;",<>?`+&#39;&#96;+
+as well as all characters with ASCII code &lt;= `0x20`, which includes
+space and newline.
++
+Other arbitrary characters can also be encoded. For instance,
+'combine:tree:3+blob:none' and 'combine:tree%3A3+blob%3Anone' are
+equivalent.
 
 --no-filter::
        Turn off any previous `--filter=` argument.