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author | pclouds@gmail.com <pclouds@gmail.com> | 2006-10-19 10:04:55 +0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-10-18 21:43:30 -0700 |
commit | 6b09c7883f50044a68d93ef6872486bad2e93a9d (patch) | |
tree | cfb90e1dd4a175a3be382aef89821fac283bd2c3 /Documentation | |
parent | 8a83157e04e8f9654b3573cf04276895b1cbd68a (diff) | |
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Add revspec documentation for ':path', ':[0-3]:path' and git-describe
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 2f1306c1d..5d4257062 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -111,7 +111,9 @@ SPECIFYING REVISIONS A revision parameter typically, but not necessarily, names a commit object. They use what is called an 'extended SHA1' -syntax. +syntax. Here are various ways to spell object names. The +ones listed near the end of this list are to name trees and +blobs contained in a commit. * The full SHA1 object name (40-byte hexadecimal string), or a substring of such that is unique within the repository. @@ -119,6 +121,9 @@ syntax. name the same commit object if there are no other object in your repository whose object name starts with dae86e. +* An output from `git-describe`; i.e. a closest tag, followed by a + dash, a 'g', and an abbreviated object name. + * A symbolic ref name. E.g. 'master' typically means the commit object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master. If you happen to have both heads/master and tags/master, you can @@ -156,6 +161,15 @@ syntax. and dereference the tag recursively until a non-tag object is found. +* A suffix ':' followed by a path; this names the blob or tree + at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part + before the colon. + +* A colon, optionally followed by a stage number (0 to 3) and a + colon, followed by a path; this names a blob object in the + index at the given path. Missing stage number (and the colon + that follows it) names an stage 0 entry. + Here is an illustration, by Jon Loeliger. Both node B and C are a commit parents of commit node A. Parent commits are ordered left-to-right. |