From: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] doc: add note about shell quoting to revision.txt
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:39:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180410183939.12146-1-asheiduk@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180410183224.10780-1-asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/revisions.txt | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index dfcc49c72c..c1d3a40a90 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ syntax. Here are various ways to spell object names. The
ones listed near the end of this list name trees and
blobs contained in a commit.
+NOTE: This document shows the "raw" syntax as seen by git. The shell
+and other UIs might require additional quoting to protect special
+characters and to avoid word splitting.
+
'<sha1>', e.g. 'dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735', 'dae86e'::
The full SHA-1 object name (40-byte hexadecimal string), or
a leading substring that is unique within the repository.
@@ -186,6 +190,8 @@ existing tag object.
is matched. ':/!-foo' performs a negative match, while ':/!!foo' matches a
literal '!' character, followed by 'foo'. Any other sequence beginning with
':/!' is reserved for now.
+ Depending on the given text the shell's word splitting rules might
+ require additional quoting.
'<rev>:<path>', e.g. 'HEAD:README', ':README', 'master:./README'::
A suffix ':' followed by a path names the blob or tree
--
2.16.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-10 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-10 18:32 [PATCH 0/6] Some doc-fixes Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 18:32 ` [PATCH 1/6] doc: fix formatting inconsistency in githooks.txt Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 19:13 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-10 20:04 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 20:44 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-10 21:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-11 21:05 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-11 21:08 ` fixup! " Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-11 21:08 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-12 19:36 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-27 16:21 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 18:32 ` [PATCH 2/6] doc: align 'diff --no-index' in text with synopsis Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 19:14 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-10 19:14 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-10 19:32 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 21:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-11 21:21 ` fixup! " Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 18:32 ` [PATCH 3/6] doc: clarify ignore rules for git ls-files Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 18:32 ` [PATCH 4/6] doc: added '-d' and '-q' for 'git push' Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 19:17 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-10 19:38 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 20:05 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-10 20:05 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-10 18:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] git-svn: commit-diff does not support --add-author-from Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-17 6:18 ` Eric Wong
2018-04-27 16:31 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-10 18:39 ` Andreas Heiduk [this message]
2018-04-10 21:25 ` [PATCH 6/6] doc: add note about shell quoting to revision.txt Junio C Hamano
2018-04-27 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Some doc-fixes Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-03 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] " Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-03 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] doc: improve formatting in githooks.txt Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-03 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] doc: align 'diff --no-index' in text and synopsis Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-03 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] doc: clarify ignore rules for git ls-files Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-03 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] doc: add '-d' and '-o' for 'git push' Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-03 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] git-svn: remove ''--add-author-from' for 'commit-diff' Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-03 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] doc: add note about shell quoting to revision.txt Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-03 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] doc: normalize [--options] to [options] in git-diff Andreas Heiduk
2018-05-04 18:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Some doc-fixes Martin Ågren
2018-04-27 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] doc: improve formatting in githooks.txt Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-27 18:46 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-27 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] doc: align 'diff --no-index' in text with synopsis Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-27 17:18 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-27 18:28 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-27 18:45 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-27 19:08 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-27 17:33 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-27 18:40 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-27 18:43 ` Martin Ågren
2018-04-27 19:12 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-27 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] doc: clarify ignore rules for git ls-files Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-27 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] doc: add '-d' and '-o' for 'git push' Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-27 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] git-svn: remove ''--add-author-from' for 'commit-diff' Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-27 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] doc: add note about shell quoting to revision.txt Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-27 17:36 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-27 18:42 ` Andreas Heiduk
2018-04-27 19:23 ` [PATCH v2 7/6] doc: normalize [--options] to [options] in git-diff Andreas Heiduk
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