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| author | Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> | 2019-05-05 18:07:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-05-07 17:09:06 +0200 |
| commit | 6a12e99a52d2d01ea84e5040a87e0dac0a4b0b35 (patch) | |
| tree | e69399b5f67ce52497b28971bba6fb146c2ac6e2 /Documentation/revisions.txt | |
| parent | revisions.txt: mark optional rev arguments with [] (diff) | |
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revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form
In revisions.txt, the '<rev>^' form is mentioned but the '<rev>~' form
is missing. Although both forms are essentially equivalent (they each
get the first parent of the specified revision), we should mention the
latter for completeness. Make this change.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/revisions.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 6f2f83f8a2..b5d9d1b381 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ thing no matter the case. '<rev>{caret}0' means the commit itself and is used when '<rev>' is the object name of a tag object that refers to a commit object. -'<rev>{tilde}<n>', e.g. 'master{tilde}3':: +'<rev>{tilde}[<n>]', e.g. 'HEAD{tilde}, master{tilde}3':: + A suffix '{tilde}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of + that commit object. A suffix '{tilde}<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit object that is the <n>th generation ancestor of the named commit object, following only the first parents. I.e. '<rev>{tilde}3' is |