From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:49:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALkWK0mo2SG+Eh1Qmy58Xo-taG_EGEj9RSx65EYhvs2CLK9dUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371607780-2966-3-git-send-email-rhansen@bbn.com>
Richard Hansen wrote:
> +[[def_committish]]committish (also commit-ish)::
Good.
> + A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to an <<def_object,object>> that
> + can be recursively dereferenced to a
> + <<def_commit_object,commit object>>.
> + The following are all committishes:
> + a ref pointing to a commit object,
> + a ref pointing to a <<def_tag_object,tag object>> 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.
Is master~3 a committish? What about :/foomery? Look at the other
forms in gitrevisions(7); master:quuxery, master^{tree} are notable
exceptions.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-19 4:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-19 2:09 [PATCH 0/4] documentation cleanups for <rev>^{<type>} Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 2:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] glossary: add 'treeish' as a synonym for 'tree-ish' Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 17:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-19 19:12 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 21:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-19 20:35 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 2:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish) Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 4:19 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2013-06-19 4:38 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 5:56 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-19 15:31 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 16:10 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 6:19 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-19 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-19 19:16 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-19 22:23 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 22:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-19 23:37 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-20 3:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-20 10:55 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-20 10:37 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-19 2:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish) Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 2:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] revisions.txt: fix and clarify <rev>^{<type>} Richard Hansen
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