Documentation: document show -s

Git's diff machinery has supported a -s (silence diff output) option as far back as v0.99~900 (Silent flag for show-diff, 2005-04-13), but the option is only advertised in an odd corner of the git diff-tree manual. The main use is to retrieve basic metadata about a commit: git show -s rev Explain this in the 'git log' manual and provide an example in the 'git show' examples section. This is kind of a cop-out, since it would be more useful to explain it in the 'git show' manual proper, which says: The command takes options applicable to the git diff-tree command to control how the changes the commit introduces are shown. This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. Fixing that is a larger task for another day. Reported-by: Will Hall <will@gnatter.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jonathan Nieder committed Nov 9, 2010 at 11:12 UTC 60aa9cf8f370b69eb7feaad2e1cbcd04280bc799

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Documentation/git-show.txt

@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ git show v1.0.0::

54 git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::

55 Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.

57 +git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}::

58 + Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the

59 + tag `v1.0.0`.

60 +

61 git show next~10:Documentation/README::

62 Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as

63 they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch

Documentation/rev-list-options.txt

@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options.

146 -t::

147

148 Show the tree objects in the diff output. This implies '-r'.

149 +

150 +-s::

151 + Suppress diff output.

152 endif::git-rev-list[]

153

154 Commit Limiting