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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-02-29 11:13:22 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-03-02 09:33:29 -0800 |
| commit | 70eb130768d17c33b9efbf60d7953cf6a57daecb (patch) | |
| tree | 86a3ed637e235a66004258cffc0d8166f1c9bf7c /Documentation | |
| parent | e0a4aae865862549c5f2a65016d4d264843e7914 (diff) | |
| download | git-70eb130768d17c33b9efbf60d7953cf6a57daecb.tar.gz git-70eb130768d17c33b9efbf60d7953cf6a57daecb.tar.xz | |
Documentation: do not assume that n > 1 in <rev>~$n
We explained <rev>~<n> as <n>th generation grand-parent, but a reader got
confused by the "grand-" part when <n> is 1.
Reword it with "ancestor"; with the "generation" and "following only the
first parents" around there, what we try to describe should be clear
enough now.
Noticed-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Helped-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Helped-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index b290b617d..172566183 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file. '<rev>{tilde}<n>', e.g. 'master{tilde}3':: A suffix '{tilde}<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit - object that is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named + object that is the <n>th generation ancestor of the named commit object, following only the first parents. I.e. '<rev>{tilde}3' is equivalent to '<rev>{caret}{caret}{caret}' which is equivalent to '<rev>{caret}1{caret}1{caret}1'. See below for an illustration of |