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author | Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> | 2016-06-28 13:40:15 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-06-28 08:36:45 -0700 |
commit | 661c3e9bc064564a492281364413dc805eaddf95 (patch) | |
tree | b431c2aeae8d4a17ecafd61fc1e1dc77bbaa04ba /Documentation/revisions.txt | |
parent | 57103dbf702557abefc7c8c4578145f9383d6e9d (diff) | |
download | git-661c3e9bc064564a492281364413dc805eaddf95.tar.gz |
doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal
This is an application of the newly added CodingGuidelines to HEAD and
variants like FETCH_HEAD. It was obtained with:
perl -pi -e "s/'([A-Z_]*HEAD)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/revisions.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 15879b381d..abae363983 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ blobs contained in a commit. first match in the following rules: . If '$GIT_DIR/<refname>' exists, that is what you mean (this is usually - useful only for 'HEAD', 'FETCH_HEAD', 'ORIG_HEAD', 'MERGE_HEAD' - and 'CHERRY_PICK_HEAD'); + useful only for `HEAD`, `FETCH_HEAD`, `ORIG_HEAD`, `MERGE_HEAD` + and `CHERRY_PICK_HEAD`); . otherwise, 'refs/<refname>' if it exists; @@ -41,16 +41,16 @@ blobs contained in a commit. . otherwise, 'refs/remotes/<refname>/HEAD' if it exists. + -'HEAD' names the commit on which you based the changes in the working tree. -'FETCH_HEAD' records the branch which you fetched from a remote repository +`HEAD` names the commit on which you based the changes in the working tree. +`FETCH_HEAD` records the branch which you fetched from a remote repository with your last `git fetch` invocation. -'ORIG_HEAD' is created by commands that move your 'HEAD' in a drastic -way, to record the position of the 'HEAD' before their operation, so that +`ORIG_HEAD` is created by commands that move your `HEAD` in a drastic +way, to record the position of the `HEAD` before their operation, so that you can easily change the tip of the branch back to the state before you ran them. -'MERGE_HEAD' records the commit(s) which you are merging into your branch +`MERGE_HEAD` records the commit(s) which you are merging into your branch when you run `git merge`. -'CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' records the commit which you are cherry-picking +`CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` records the commit which you are cherry-picking when you run `git cherry-pick`. + Note that any of the 'refs/*' cases above may come either from @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred as some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. '@':: - '@' alone is a shortcut for 'HEAD'. + '@' alone is a shortcut for `HEAD`. '<refname>@{<date>}', e.g. 'master@\{yesterday\}', 'HEAD@{5 minutes ago}':: A ref followed by the suffix '@' with a date specification @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. '<branchname>@\{push\}', e.g. 'master@\{push\}', '@\{push\}':: The suffix '@\{push}' reports the branch "where we would push to" if `git push` were run while `branchname` was checked out (or the current - 'HEAD' if no branchname is specified). Since our push destination is + `HEAD` if no branchname is specified). Since our push destination is in a remote repository, of course, we report the local tracking branch that corresponds to that branch (i.e., something in 'refs/remotes/'). + @@ -283,12 +283,12 @@ To summarize: '<rev1>..<rev2>':: Include commits that are reachable from <rev2> but exclude those that are reachable from <rev1>. When either <rev1> or - <rev2> is omitted, it defaults to 'HEAD'. + <rev2> is omitted, it defaults to `HEAD`. '<rev1>\...<rev2>':: Include commits that are reachable from either <rev1> or <rev2> but exclude those that are reachable from both. When - either <rev1> or <rev2> is omitted, it defaults to 'HEAD'. + either <rev1> or <rev2> is omitted, it defaults to `HEAD`. '<rev>{caret}@', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}@':: A suffix '{caret}' followed by an at sign is the same as listing |