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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. |