From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Hansen Subject: [PATCH 2/4] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:09:38 -0400 Message-ID: <1371607780-2966-3-git-send-email-rhansen@bbn.com> References: <1371607780-2966-1-git-send-email-rhansen@bbn.com> Cc: Richard Hansen To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 19 04:10:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Up7qc-0008F5-0S for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:10:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934055Ab3FSCKF (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:10:05 -0400 Received: from smtp.bbn.com ([128.33.0.80]:57469 "EHLO smtp.bbn.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933836Ab3FSCKD (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:10:03 -0400 Received: from socket.bbn.com ([192.1.120.102]:40564) by smtp.bbn.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Up7qT-000OQR-2Y; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:10:01 -0400 X-Submitted: to socket.bbn.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBD90408FE X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 In-Reply-To: <1371607780-2966-1-git-send-email-rhansen@bbn.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 01365d9..a3cc003 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -82,6 +82,17 @@ to point at the new commit. to the top <> of the stored revision. +[[def_committish]]committish (also commit-ish):: + A <> pointing to an <> that + can be recursively dereferenced to a + <>. + The following are all committishes: + a ref pointing to a commit object, + a ref pointing to a <> that points + to a commit object, + a ref pointing to a tag object that points to a tag object + that points to a commit object, etc. + [[def_core_git]]core Git:: Fundamental data structures and utilities of Git. Exposes only limited source code management tools. -- 1.8.3.1