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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-01-29 02:16:45 -0500 |
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| committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-01-29 02:16:45 -0500 |
| commit | d55ae921ce33dc989b6b77317f25a5aa58d406fe (patch) | |
| tree | 80dbf4e1760228b199b05a874afbd3a7f31f779d | |
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user-manual: SHA1 -> object name
Prefer "object name" to SHA1, at least in higher level documentation.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 5f41a2d02..61c8b4389 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ Naming commits We have seen several ways of naming commits already: - - 40-hexdigit SHA1 id + - 40-hexdigit object name - branch name: refers to the commit at the head of the given branch - tag name: refers to the commit pointed to by the given tag @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ gitlink:git-rev-parse[1] man page for the complete list of ways to name revisions. Some examples: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git show fb47ddb2 # the first few characters of the SHA1 id +$ git show fb47ddb2 # the first few characters of the object name # are usually enough to specify it uniquely $ git show HEAD^ # the parent of the HEAD commit $ git show HEAD^^ # the grandparent @@ -743,8 +743,8 @@ which refers to the other branch that we're merging in to the current branch. The gitlink:git-rev-parse[1] command is a low-level command that is -occasionally useful for translating some name for a commit to the SHA1 id for -that commit: +occasionally useful for translating some name for a commit to the object +name for that commit: ------------------------------------------------- $ git rev-parse origin @@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ $ git diff origin..master will tell you whether the contents of the project are the same at the two branches; in theory, however, it's possible that the same project contents could have been arrived at by two different historical -routes. You could compare the SHA1 id's: +routes. You could compare the object names: ------------------------------------------------- $ git rev-list origin |