Specify even more clearly that --reverse works only with the commits
which are chosen to be shown so as to eliminate the confusion as to
whether the first n or the last n commits with be shown when used
with `-n --reverse`.

Reported-by: Ruediger Meier <sweet_...@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.ba...@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt 
b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 7e462d3..5da7cf5 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -657,8 +657,9 @@ 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
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--
https://github.com/git/git/pull/296

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