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| author |  Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> | 2010-06-27 15:15:22 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-06-27 12:25:37 -0700 |
| commit | 3f3abe3c5aa94a37bb57365262a9ad451c422e36 (patch) | |
| tree | 66ac10be8b08beb9a9fca0045da311c363a5e72d | |
| parent | Update draft release notes to 1.7.1.1 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-3f3abe3c5aa94a37bb57365262a9ad451c422e36.tar.xz | |
git-rev-parse.txt: Document ":path" specifier
The empty treeish in ":path" means "index". This is actually a special
case of the ":stage:path" syntax where it is documented, but mentioning
it also together with "treeish:path" is helpful, so do it.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 8db600f6ba..d525e577b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -291,7 +291,9 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. * A suffix ':' followed by a path; this names the blob or tree at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part - before the colon. + before the colon. ":path" (with an empty part before the colon) + is a special case of the syntax described next: content + recorded in the index at the given path. * A colon, optionally followed by a stage number (0 to 3) and a colon, followed by a path; this names a blob object in the |