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authorToon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>2026-01-20 22:47:08 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2026-01-20 14:13:04 -0800
commitb143f0f60816bbb2095eadc15d81b49c131f6a19 (patch)
tree8f71d5e31a62e473c5db29e3b3cea0229c5f1649
parent6ab38b7e9cc7adafc304f3204616a4debd49c6e9 (diff)
downloadgit-b143f0f60816bbb2095eadc15d81b49c131f6a19.tar.xz
last-modified: clarify in the docs the command takes a pathspec
The documentation mentions git-last-modified(1) takes `<path>...`, but that argument actually accepts a pathspec. Reword the documentation to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-last-modified.adoc11
-rw-r--r--builtin/last-modified.c4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-last-modified.adoc b/Documentation/git-last-modified.adoc
index 602843e095..7c3fd844b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-last-modified.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-last-modified.adoc
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ git-last-modified - EXPERIMENTAL: Show when files were last modified
SYNOPSIS
--------
[synopsis]
-git last-modified [--recursive] [--show-trees] [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]
+git last-modified [--recursive] [--show-trees]
+ [<revision-range>] [[--] <pathspec>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -39,10 +40,10 @@ OPTIONS
spell `<revision-range>`, see the 'Specifying Ranges' section of
linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
-`[--] <path>...`::
- For each _<path>_ given, the commit which last modified it is returned.
- Without an optional path parameter, all files and subdirectories
- in path traversal the are included in the output.
+`[--] <pathspec>...`::
+ Show the commit that last modified each path matching _<pathspec>_.
+ If no _<pathspec>_ is given, all files and subdirectories are included.
+ See linkgit:gitglossary[7] for details on pathspec syntax.
SEE ALSO
--------
diff --git a/builtin/last-modified.c b/builtin/last-modified.c
index b0ecbdc540..781495f597 100644
--- a/builtin/last-modified.c
+++ b/builtin/last-modified.c
@@ -510,8 +510,8 @@ 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] "
- "[<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]"),
+ N_("git last-modified [--recursive] [--show-trees]\n"
+ " [<revision-range>] [[--] <pathspec>...]"),
NULL
};