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authorDenton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>2019-05-05 12:06:59 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-05-08 00:09:06 +0900
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revisions.txt: change "rev" to "<rev>"
In revisions.txt, there were some instances of a rev argument being written as "rev". However, since they didn't mean the string literal, write "<rev>", instead. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
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--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
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@@ -159,12 +159,12 @@ thing no matter the case.
'<rev>{caret}0'
is a short-hand for '<rev>{caret}\{commit\}'.
+
-'rev{caret}\{object\}' can be used to make sure 'rev' names an
-object that exists, without requiring 'rev' to be a tag, and
-without dereferencing 'rev'; because a tag is already an object,
+'<rev>{caret}\{object\}' can be used to make sure '<rev>' names an
+object that exists, without requiring '<rev>' to be a tag, and
+without dereferencing '<rev>'; because a tag is already an object,
it does not have to be dereferenced even once to get to an object.
+
-'rev{caret}\{tag\}' can be used to ensure that 'rev' identifies an
+'<rev>{caret}\{tag\}' can be used to ensure that '<rev>' identifies an
existing tag object.
'<rev>{caret}{}', e.g. 'v0.99.8{caret}{}'::