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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-09-28 05:51:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-09-28 05:51:23 +0000 |
| commit | 442206cbc570d6bc05423bd8a54db5f06d740c65 (patch) | |
| tree | f64aa85c61bcdb071c4b29fc8d8bd7088ebd3063 /revisions.txt | |
| parent | ac752fa22d8703ee06a9d217b438ced13d4eb41b (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-442206cbc570d6bc05423bd8a54db5f06d740c65.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.3-15-g442cb
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diff --git a/revisions.txt b/revisions.txt index fe846f043..3d4b79c48 100644 --- a/revisions.txt +++ b/revisions.txt @@ -107,11 +107,13 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. found. * A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text (e.g. `:/fix nasty bug`): this names - a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text. + a commit whose commit message matches the specified regular expression. This name returns the youngest matching commit which is reachable from any ref. If the commit message starts with a '!', you have to repeat that; the special sequence ':/!', followed by something else than '!' is reserved for now. + The regular expression can match any part of the commit message. To + match messages starting with a string, one can use e.g. `:/^foo`. * A suffix ':' followed by a path (e.g. `HEAD:README`); this names the blob or tree at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part |