[PATCH v2 3/5] last-modified: document option --max-depth
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From: Toon Claes <hidden>
Date: 2026-01-16 13:23:18
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Option --max-depth is supported by git-last-modified(1), because it was added to the diff machinery in a1dfa5448d (diff: teach tree-diff a max-depth parameter, 2025-08-07). This option is useful for everyday use of the git-last-modified(1) command, so document it's existence in the man page. Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <redacted> --- Documentation/git-last-modified.adoc | 8 +++++++- builtin/last-modified.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-last-modified.adoc b/Documentation/git-last-modified.adoc
index 2e5f370c15..a3992db3f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-last-modified.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-last-modified.adoc@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-last-modified - EXPERIMENTAL: Show when files were last modified SYNOPSIS -------- [synopsis] -git last-modified [--recursive] [--show-trees] [-z] +git last-modified [--recursive] [--show-trees] [--max-depth=<depth>] [-z] [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...] DESCRIPTION
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ OPTIONS Show tree entries even when recursing into them. It has no effect without `--recursive`. +`--max-depth=<depth>`:: + For each pathspec given on the command line, descend at most `<depth>` + levels of directories. A negative value means no limit. + Setting a positive value implies `--recursive`. + Cannot be combined with wildcards in the pathspec. + `-z`:: Terminate each line with a _NUL_ character rather than a newline.
diff --git a/builtin/last-modified.c b/builtin/last-modified.c
index 0d73384e45..324363b5ca 100644
--- a/builtin/last-modified.c
+++ b/builtin/last-modified.c@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ int cmd_last_modified(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, struct last_modified lm = { 0 }; const char * const last_modified_usage[] = { - N_("git last-modified [--recursive] [--show-trees] [-z]\n" + N_("git last-modified [--recursive] [--show-trees] [--max-depth=<depth>] [-z]\n" " [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]"), NULL };
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