From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx>
A following commit will reuse the description of the `git rev-list`
command in the `git log` manpage.
Move this description to a separate file.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-rev-list.txt | 39 +-------------------------
Documentation/rev-list-description.txt | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/rev-list-description.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 025c911436..b06e11ae56 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -14,44 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-List commits that are reachable by following the `parent` links from the
-given commit(s), but exclude commits that are reachable from the one(s)
-given with a '{caret}' in front of them. The output is given in reverse
-chronological order by default.
-
-You can think of this as a set operation. Commits given on the command
-line form a set of commits that are reachable from any of them, and then
-commits reachable from any of the ones given with '{caret}' in front are
-subtracted from that set. The remaining commits are what comes out in the
-command's output. Various other options and paths parameters can be used
-to further limit the result.
-
-Thus, the following command:
-
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- $ git rev-list foo bar ^baz
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-means "list all the commits which are reachable from 'foo' or 'bar', but
-not from 'baz'".
-
-A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
-short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of
-the following may be used interchangeably:
-
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- $ git rev-list origin..HEAD
- $ git rev-list HEAD ^origin
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Another special notation is "'<commit1>'...'<commit2>'" which is useful
-for merges. The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference
-between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent:
-
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- $ git rev-list A B --not $(git merge-base --all A B)
- $ git rev-list A...B
------------------------------------------------------------------------
+include::rev-list-description.txt[]
'rev-list' is a very essential Git command, since it
provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-description.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-description.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aa6bbd8cec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-description.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+List commits that are reachable by following the `parent` links from the
+given commit(s), but exclude commits that are reachable from the one(s)
+given with a '{caret}' in front of them. The output is given in reverse
+chronological order by default.
+
+You can think of this as a set operation. Commits given on the command
+line form a set of commits that are reachable from any of them, and then
+commits reachable from any of the ones given with '{caret}' in front are
+subtracted from that set. The remaining commits are what comes out in the
+command's output. Various other options and paths parameters can be used
+to further limit the result.
+
+Thus, the following command:
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ $ git rev-list foo bar ^baz
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+means "list all the commits which are reachable from 'foo' or 'bar', but
+not from 'baz'".
+
+A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
+short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of
+the following may be used interchangeably:
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ $ git rev-list origin..HEAD
+ $ git rev-list HEAD ^origin
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Another special notation is "'<commit1>'...'<commit2>'" which is useful
+for merges. The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference
+between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent:
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ $ git rev-list A B --not $(git merge-base --all A B)
+ $ git rev-list A...B
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--
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