Merge branch 'wp/pretty-enhancement'

[git.git] / Documentation / pretty-formats.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index b055a673d83bcf4c106f3f703ca7f4db4ca1d60f..8c68ce94f990b0c7f3bc909cc3dc0c4e2a37cf3b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ have limited your view of history: for example, if you are
 only interested in changes related to a certain directory or
 file.
 
-Here are some additional details for each format:
+There are several built-in formats, and you can define
+additional formats by setting a pretty.<name>
+config option to either another format name, or a
+'format:' string, as described below (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]). Here are the details of the
+built-in formats:
 
 * 'oneline'