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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-05-23 16:07:42 +0900 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-05-23 16:07:42 +0900 |
| commit | b9d9d90d180cf21baeeb16bd89828d25c7901470 (patch) | |
| tree | a40241052af8d4f5543b66581e3f0235cfae0af3 /revisions.txt | |
| parent | ccb8252b46bfba5daf0cfcedaf0f9d2e14ba356f (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-b9d9d90d180cf21baeeb16bd89828d25c7901470.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.17.0-775-ge144d
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diff --git a/revisions.txt b/revisions.txt index dfcc49c72..7d1bd4409 100644 --- a/revisions.txt +++ b/revisions.txt @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ syntax. Here are various ways to spell object names. The ones listed near the end of this list name trees and blobs contained in a commit. +NOTE: This document shows the "raw" syntax as seen by git. The shell +and other UIs might require additional quoting to protect special +characters and to avoid word splitting. + '<sha1>', e.g. 'dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735', 'dae86e':: The full SHA-1 object name (40-byte hexadecimal string), or a leading substring that is unique within the repository. @@ -186,6 +190,8 @@ existing tag object. is matched. ':/!-foo' performs a negative match, while ':/!!foo' matches a literal '!' character, followed by 'foo'. Any other sequence beginning with ':/!' is reserved for now. + Depending on the given text, the shell's word splitting rules might + require additional quoting. '<rev>:<path>', e.g. 'HEAD:README', ':README', 'master:./README':: A suffix ':' followed by a path names the blob or tree @@ -345,6 +351,7 @@ Here are a handful of examples using the Loeliger illustration above, with each step in the notation's expansion and selection carefully spelt out: +.... Args Expanded arguments Selected commits D G H D D F G H I J D F @@ -367,3 +374,4 @@ spelt out: = B ^B^1 ^B^2 ^B^3 = B ^D ^E ^F B F^! D = F ^I ^J D G H D F +.... |