From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Hansen Subject: [PATCH 4/4] revisions.txt: fix and clarify ^{} Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:09:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1371607780-2966-5-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 04:43:33 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 1Up8Mu-0006fc-IK for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:43:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934120Ab3FSCn0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:43:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.bbn.com ([128.33.1.81]:58327 "EHLO smtp.bbn.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934083Ab3FSCnY (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:43:24 -0400 Received: from socket.bbn.com ([192.1.120.102]:39096) by smtp.bbn.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Up7qT-000I86-8P; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:10:01 -0400 X-Submitted: to socket.bbn.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0504540153 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: If possible, will be dereferenced even if it is not a tag type (e.g., commit dereferenced to a tree). Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen --- Documentation/revisions.txt | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 09896a3..bf563cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -114,10 +114,14 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. '{caret}\{\}', e.g. 'v0.99.8{caret}\{commit\}':: A suffix '{caret}' followed by an object type name enclosed in - brace pair means the object - could be a tag, and dereference the tag recursively until an - object of that type is found or the object cannot be - dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf). '{caret}0' + brace pair means dereference the object at '' recursively until + an object of type '' is found or the object cannot be + dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf). + For example, if '' is a committish, '{caret}\{commit\}' + specifies the corresponding commit object. + Similarly, if '' is a tree-ish, '{caret}\{tree\}' + specifies the corresponding tree object. + '{caret}0' is a short-hand for '{caret}\{commit\}'. + 'rev{caret}\{object\}' can be used to make sure 'rev' names an -- 1.8.3.1