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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-07-22 11:00:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-07-22 11:00:23 -0700 |
| commit | 247b4d5f3807dc3c2230bb4bf497f84a1fc59e49 (patch) | |
| tree | cb229588a7b1f7144acb8735ed114d015ee6b9d8 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'rs/code-cleaning' (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'ah/fix-http-push' into maint (diff) | |
| download | tgif-247b4d5f3807dc3c2230bb4bf497f84a1fc59e49.tar.xz | |
Sync with maint
* maint:
Documentation: fix missing text for rev-parse --verify
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 9bd76a5a6b..0b84769bd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")" + If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object -you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. +you require, you can add "\^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR` names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR` |