Subject: Documentation for "git log --all" incorrect

From: Francis Irving <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:51:34 +0000

The help for "git log --all" says:

       --all
                  Pretend as if all the refs in refs/ are listed on
                  the command line as <commit>.

This makes no sense, as <commit> is not a documented valid command line
parameter. These are the documented parameters:

        SYNOPSIS
               git log [<options>] [<revision range>] [[--] <path>...]

Even if it means <revision range>, which is my best guess, it still
makes no sense as <revision range> cannot be a list of many refs.

I suspect both the documentation for "--all" and the documentation for
the basic options are either incorrect, or confusing by using multiple
names for the same thing.

I'm using git 1.9.2

Francis