aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index cbca60a196..e51f1e54e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ The placeholders are:
'%<( <N> [,trunc|ltrunc|mtrunc])':: make the next placeholder take at
least N column widths, padding spaces on
the right if necessary. Optionally
- truncate at the beginning (ltrunc),
- the middle (mtrunc) or the end
- (trunc) if the output is longer than
+ truncate (with ellipsis '..') at the left (ltrunc) `..ft`,
+ the middle (mtrunc) `mi..le`, or the end
+ (trunc) `rig..`, if the output is longer than
N columns.
Note 1: that truncating
only works correctly with N >= 2.