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| author | Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com> | 2013-09-04 15:04:32 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-09-04 15:03:49 -0700 |
| commit | 930f302cdbdd8410188fe306341117cd10af3383 (patch) | |
| tree | bd64e3e797fd7fbd2d9df170563535a67daf91bd /Documentation/glossary-content.txt | |
| parent | a8a5406ab32fccabf8ed08001d50b5373e18ff1a (diff) | |
| download | git-930f302cdbdd8410188fe306341117cd10af3383.tar.gz | |
glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish)
A tree-ish isn't a ref. Also, mention dereferencing, and that a
commit dereferences to a tree, to support gitrevisions(7) and
rev-parse's error messages.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/glossary-content.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 47e901ece8..3466ce9129 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -499,9 +499,18 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec. <<def_tree,tree>> is equivalent to a <<def_directory,directory>>. [[def_tree-ish]]tree-ish (also treeish):: - A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to either a <<def_commit_object,commit - object>>, a <<def_tree_object,tree object>>, or a <<def_tag_object,tag - object>> pointing to a tag or commit or tree object. + A <<def_tree_object,tree object>> or an <<def_object,object>> + that can be recursively dereferenced to a tree object. + Dereferencing a <<def_commit_object,commit object>> yields the + tree object corresponding to the <<def_revision,revision>>'s + top <<def_directory,directory>>. + The following are all tree-ishes: + a <<def_commit-ish,commit-ish>>, + a tree object, + a <<def_tag_object,tag object>> that points to a tree object, + a tag object that points to a tag object that points to a tree + object, + etc. [[def_unmerged_index]]unmerged index:: An <<def_index,index>> which contains unmerged |