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| author | Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-01-17 21:08:04 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-17 20:45:15 -0800 |
| commit | ee53aff486d380986e549ea93a5d68e7b7607293 (patch) | |
| tree | 87c4ecca24de8c703d9aa1dd077a257126a3e098 | |
| parent | de3820f5e486a9cb6debe414ef63f77d2ef83b62 (diff) | |
| download | git-ee53aff486d380986e549ea93a5d68e7b7607293.tar.gz git-ee53aff486d380986e549ea93a5d68e7b7607293.tar.xz | |
Document the master@{n} reflog query syntax.
In ab2a1a32 Junio improved the reflog query logic to support
obtaining the n-th prior value of a ref, but this was never
documented in git-rev-parse. Now it is.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 8 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 4eaf5a0d1..aeb37b65d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -152,6 +152,14 @@ blobs contained in a commit. used immediately following a ref name and the ref must have an existing log ($GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>). +* A ref followed by the suffix '@' with an ordinal specification + enclosed in a brace pair (e.g. '\{1\}', '\{15\}') to specify + the n-th prior value of that ref. For example 'master@\{1\}' + is the immediate prior value of 'master' while 'master@\{5\}' + is the 5th prior value of 'master'. This suffix may only be used + immediately following a ref name and the ref must have an existing + log ($GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>). + * A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of that commit object. '{caret}<n>' means the <n>th parent (i.e. 'rev{caret}' |