Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.4.3-g72bb

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@@ -473,7 +473,9 @@ distinguish between them.</p>
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 <p>A revision parameter typically, but not necessarily, names a

 commit object.  They use what is called an <em>extended SHA1</em>

-syntax.</p>

+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.</p>

 <ul>

 <li>

 <p>

@@ -486,6 +488,12 @@ The full SHA1 object name (40-byte hexadecimal string), or
 </li>

 <li>

 <p>

+An output from <tt>git-describe</tt>; i.e. a closest tag, followed by a

+  dash, a <em>g</em>, and an abbreviated object name.

+</p>

+</li>

+<li>

+<p>

 A symbolic ref name.  E.g. <em>master</em> 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

@@ -538,6 +546,21 @@ A suffix <em>^</em> followed by an empty brace pair
   found.

 </p>

 </li>

+<li>

+<p>

+A suffix <em>:</em> 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.

+</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 an stage 0 entry.

+</p>

+</li>

 </ul>

 <p>Here is an illustration, by Jon Loeliger.  Both node B and C are

 a commit parents of commit node A.  Parent commits are ordered

@@ -614,7 +637,7 @@ Junio C Hamano &lt;junkio@cox.net&gt;</p>
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-Last updated 03-Oct-2006 08:41:26 UTC

+Last updated 19-Oct-2006 05:58:41 UTC

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