doc/rev-list-options: explain "-g" output formats

We document that asking for HEAD@{now} will switch the
output to show HEAD@{timestamp}, but not that specifying
`--date` has a similar effect, or that it can be overridden
with HEAD@{0}. Let's do so.

These rules come from 794151e (reflog-walk: always make
HEAD@{0} show indexed selectors, 2012-05-04), though that is
simply the culmination of years of these heuristics growing
organically.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King 2016-07-22 15:51:32 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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With `--pretty` format other than `oneline` (for obvious reasons),
this causes the output to have two extra lines of information
taken from the reflog. By default, `ref@{Nth}` notation is
used in the output. When the starting commit is specified as
`ref@{now}`, output also uses `ref@{timestamp}` notation
instead. Under `--pretty=oneline`, the commit message is
taken from the reflog. The reflog designator in the output may be shown
as `ref@{Nth}` (where `Nth` is the reverse-chronological index in the
reflog) or as `ref@{timestamp}` (with the timestamp for that entry),
depending on a few rules:
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1. If the starting point is specified as `ref@{Nth}`, show the index
format.
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2. If the starting point was specified as `ref@{now}`, show the
timestamp format.
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3. If neither was used, but `--date` was given on the command line, show
the timestamp in the format requested by `--date`.
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4. Otherwise, show the index format.
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Under `--pretty=oneline`, the commit message is
prefixed with this information on the same line.
This option cannot be combined with `--reverse`.
See also linkgit:git-reflog[1].