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[PATCH 2/2] log: Improve description of '-<n>' option in documentation

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:21
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

The earlier description of the '-<n>' option was misleading- the user
would have expected to be able to use it to limit the number of
commits shown when specifying a revision range, for example. In
reality, the option simply instructs the log to walk the topmost <n>
commits. Also update the meaning of the same option in the
git-format-patch documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-format-patch.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-log.txt          |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 4b3f5ba..df77474 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS
 include::diff-options.txt[]
 
 -<n>::
-	Limits the number of patches to prepare.
+	Prepare patches from the topmost <n> commits.
 
 -o <dir>::
 --output-directory <dir>::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 83e4ee3..ca02206 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 
 -<n>::
-	Limits the number of commits to show.
+	Show the topmost <n> commits.
 
 <since>..<until>::
 	Show only commits between the named two commits.  When
-- 
1.7.2.2.409.gdbb11.dirty
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