On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 07:38:00PM +0200, Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com> wrote:
> Terminology question: Is there *any* kind of agreed-on name for the 
> identifiers you pass into git-rev-parse (like HEAD^2 or 
> master:test/foo.txt)?  I called it "revision name" before, but that's wrong 
> for the "...:<path>" syntaxes, and "object identifier" is reserved for 
> hashes only (according to the glossary).  If there no better suggestions, 
> I'll probably go for "extended identifiers", since rev-parse --help calls 
> this the "extended SHA1 syntax", and it also seems to be an unused term.

`man git-rev-parse` calls them "revisions". Yes, even the commit:path
ones. So I would use "revision", or if you introduce a new term, I would
strongly suggest updating not just the glossary but git-rev-parse.txt as
well.

Thanks.