From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> The glossary defines 'ref' as the official name of the thing, and the output from "git grep -e '<ref' Documentation/" shows that most everybody uses <ref>, not <reference>. In addition, the page already says <ref> in its SYNOPSIS section for the command when it is used in the mode to follow the reflogs. Strictly speaking, many references of these should be updated to <commit> after adding an explanation on how these <commit>s are discovered (i.e. we take <rev>, <glob>, or <ref> and starting from these commits, follow their ancestry or reflog entries to list commits), but that would be a lot bigger change I would rather not to do in this patch, whose primary purpose is to make the existing documentation more consistent. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sean Allred <allred.sean@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-show-branch.txt | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt index 71f608b1ff1..58cf6210cde 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt @@ -74,8 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS that is the common ancestor of all the branches. This flag tells the command to go <n> more common commits beyond that. When <n> is negative, display only the - <reference>s given, without showing the commit ancestry - tree. + <ref>s given, without showing the commit ancestry tree. --list:: Synonym to `--more=-1` @@ -88,8 +87,8 @@ OPTIONS the case of three or more commits. --independent:: - Among the <reference>s given, display only the ones that - cannot be reached from any other <reference>. + Among the <ref>s given, display only the ones that cannot be + reached from any other <ref>. --no-name:: Do not show naming strings for each commit. @@ -132,10 +131,11 @@ are mutually exclusive. OUTPUT ------ -Given N <references>, the first N lines are the one-line -description from their commit message. The branch head that is -pointed at by $GIT_DIR/HEAD is prefixed with an asterisk `*` -character while other heads are prefixed with a `!` character. + +Given N <ref>s, the first N lines are the one-line description from +their commit message. The branch head that is pointed at by +$GIT_DIR/HEAD is prefixed with an asterisk `*` character while other +heads are prefixed with a `!` character. Following these N lines, one-line log for each commit is displayed, indented N places. If a commit is on the I-th -- gitgitgadget
