Documentation: what does "git log --indexed-objects" even mean?

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 3301fdebf0206e7722acd5dd6863168d56aba55d..c88d5e142cc5ae9d56e51bbf4b072a2aa0d5dfd1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -172,11 +172,6 @@ explicitly.
        Pretend as if all objects mentioned by reflogs are listed on the
        command line as `<commit>`.
 
---indexed-objects::
-       Pretend as if all trees and blobs used by the index are listed
-       on the command line.  Note that you probably want to use
-       `--objects`, too.
-
 --ignore-missing::
        Upon seeing an invalid object name in the input, pretend as if
        the bad input was not given.
@@ -644,6 +639,7 @@ Object Traversal
 
 These options are mostly targeted for packing of Git repositories.
 
+ifdef::git-rev-list[]
 --objects::
        Print the object IDs of any object referenced by the listed
        commits.  `--objects foo ^bar` thus means ``send me
@@ -657,9 +653,15 @@ These options are mostly targeted for packing of Git repositories.
        objects in deltified form based on objects contained in these
        excluded commits to reduce network traffic.
 
+--indexed-objects::
+       Pretend as if all trees and blobs used by the index are listed
+       on the command line.  Note that you probably want to use
+       `--objects`, too.
+
 --unpacked::
        Only useful with `--objects`; print the object IDs that are not
        in packs.
+endif::git-rev-list[]
 
 --no-walk[=(sorted|unsorted)]::
        Only show the given commits, but do not traverse their ancestors.