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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-18 15:30:42 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-18 15:30:42 -0700
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@@ -686,8 +686,13 @@ be prefixed with "-- " to separate them from options or refnames.</p></div>
<h3 id="_commit_limiting">Commit Limiting</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the
special notations explained in the description, additional commit
-limiting may be applied. Note that they are applied before commit
-ordering and formatting options, such as <em>--reverse</em>.</p></div>
+limiting may be applied.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Using more options generally further limits the output (e.g.
+<tt>--since=&lt;date1&gt;</tt> limits to commits newer than <tt>&lt;date1&gt;</tt>, and using it
+with <tt>--grep=&lt;pattern&gt;</tt> further limits to commits whose log message
+has a line that matches <tt>&lt;pattern&gt;</tt>), unless otherwise noted.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Note that these are applied before commit
+ordering and formatting options, such as <tt>--reverse</tt>.</p></div>
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-&lt;number&gt;
@@ -742,7 +747,10 @@ ordering and formatting options, such as <em>--reverse</em>.</p></div>
<dd>
<p>
Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
- header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).
+ header lines that match the specified pattern (regular
+ expression). With more than one <tt>--author=&lt;pattern&gt;</tt>,
+ commits whose author matches any of the given patterns are
+ chosen (similarly for multiple <tt>--committer=&lt;pattern&gt;</tt>).
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
@@ -751,7 +759,10 @@ ordering and formatting options, such as <em>--reverse</em>.</p></div>
<dd>
<p>
Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
- matches the specified pattern (regular expression).
+ matches the specified pattern (regular expression). With
+ more than one <tt>--grep=&lt;pattern&gt;</tt>, commits whose message
+ matches any of the given patterns are chosen (but see
+ <tt>--all-match</tt>).
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
@@ -760,7 +771,7 @@ ordering and formatting options, such as <em>--reverse</em>.</p></div>
<dd>
<p>
Limit the commits output to ones that match all given --grep,
- --author and --committer instead of ones that match at least one.
+ instead of ones that match at least one.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">