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rev-list-options: clarify the usage of --reverse

Users often wonder if the oldest or the newest n commits are shown
by `log -n --reverse`.  Clarify that --reverse kicks in only after
deciding which commits are to be shown to unconfuse them.

Reported-by: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Pranit Bauva 9 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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      Documentation/rev-list-options.txt

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Documentation/rev-list-options.txt

@ -638,8 +638,9 @@ avoid showing the commits from two parallel development track mixed @@ -638,8 +638,9 @@ avoid showing the commits from two parallel development track mixed
together.

--reverse::
Output the commits in reverse order.
Cannot be combined with `--walk-reflogs`.
Output the commits chosen to be shown (see Commit Limiting
section above) in reverse order. Cannot be combined with
`--walk-reflogs`.

Object Traversal
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