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author | Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> | 2010-07-05 18:11:40 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-07-05 13:39:02 -0700 |
commit | 1ed6f2c5b97de939e2f52da6a60785f3d9a3de86 (patch) | |
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Documentation: gitrevisions
Create a new man page gitrevisions(7) which contains the revsions and
ranges documentation but not more. This uses (per include) the same bits
as the pertaining section of git-rev-parse(1).
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt b/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fc4789f98 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +gitrevisions(7) +================ + +NAME +---- +gitrevisions - specifying revisions and ranges for git + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +gitrevisions + + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +Many Git commands take revision parameters as arguments. Depending on +the command, they denote a specific commit or, for commands which +walk the revision graph (such as linkgit:git-log[1]), all commits which can +be reached from that commit. In the latter case one can also specify a +range of revisions explicitly. + +In addition, some Git commands (such as linkgit:git-show[1]) also take +revision parameters which denote other objects than commits, e.g. blobs +("files") or trees ("directories of files"). + +include::revisions.txt[] + + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |