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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org>2010-07-01 00:08:51 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org>2010-07-01 00:08:51 +0000
commit7d44952cc831fe14797546fa07afc857b0844d25 (patch)
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parent30e8106caeb8158599478faa5ec02eb955db38fa (diff)
downloadgit-htmldocs-7d44952cc831fe14797546fa07afc857b0844d25.tar.gz
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.2-rc1
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@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ The suffix <em>@{upstream}</em> to a ref (short form <em>ref@{u}</em>) refers to
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<li>
<p>
-A suffix <em>&#94;</em> to a revision parameter means the first parent of
+A suffix <em>&#94;</em> to a revision parameter (e.g. <em>HEAD&#94;</em>) means the first parent of
that commit object. <em>&#94;&lt;n&gt;</em> means the &lt;n&gt;th parent (i.e.
<em>rev&#94;</em>
is equivalent to <em>rev&#94;1</em>). As a special rule,
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ A suffix <em>&#94;</em> followed by an empty brace pair
</li>
<li>
<p>
-A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text: this names
+A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text (e.g. <tt>:/fix nasty bug</tt>): this names
a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text.
This name returns the youngest matching commit which is
reachable from any ref. If the commit message starts with a
@@ -825,17 +825,20 @@ A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text: this names
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<li>
<p>
-A suffix <em>:</em> followed by a path; this names the blob or tree
+A suffix <em>:</em> followed by a path (e.g. <tt>HEAD:README</tt>); this names the blob or tree
at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part
before the colon.
+ <em>:path</em> (with an empty part before the colon, e.g. <tt>:README</tt>)
+ is a special case of the syntax described next: content
+ recorded in the index at the given path.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
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 a stage 0 entry. During a merge, stage
+ colon, followed by a path (e.g. <tt>:0:README</tt>); this names a blob object in the
+ index at the given path. Missing stage number (and the colon
+ that follows it, e.g. <tt>:README</tt>) names a stage 0 entry. During a merge, stage
1 is the common ancestor, stage 2 is the target branch's version
(typically the current branch), and stage 3 is the version from
the branch being merged.
@@ -1069,7 +1072,7 @@ Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt; and Pierre Habouzit &lt;madcoder@debian
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-Last updated 2010-04-24 02:56:07 UTC
+Last updated 2010-07-01 00:08:21 UTC
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