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| author |  Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2010-12-15 00:05:33 -0600 |
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| committer | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2010-12-15 00:05:33 -0600 |
| commit | 52c9d8e27592347a03962f47999bd32caf578d0f (patch) | |
| tree | 5d05046223ec569141b7f6410daa55f26cc4c6cd /Documentation/revisions.txt | |
| parent | bash: simple reimplementation of _get_comp_words_by_ref (diff) | |
| parent | completion: fix zsh check under bash with 'set -u' (diff) | |
| download | tgif-52c9d8e27592347a03962f47999bd32caf578d0f.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' (early part) into pd/bash-4-completion
* 'master' (early part): (529 commits)
completion: fix zsh check under bash with 'set -u'
Fix copy-pasted comments related to tree diff handling.
Git 1.7.3.2
{cvs,svn}import: use the new 'git read-tree --empty'
t/t9001-send-email.sh: fix stderr redirection in 'Invalid In-Reply-To'
Clarify and extend the "git diff" format documentation
git-show-ref.txt: clarify the pattern matching
documentation: git-config minor cleanups
Update test script annotate-tests.sh to handle missing/extra authors
Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development
Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff"
Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO section
Documentation: diff can compare blobs
Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7
fast-import: Allow filemodify to set the root
shell portability: no "export VAR=VAL"
CodingGuidelines: reword parameter expansion section
Documentation: update-index: -z applies also to --index-info
gitweb: Improve behavior for actionless path_info gitweb URLs
gitweb: Fix bug in evaluate_path_info
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Conflicts:
GIT-VERSION-GEN
RelNotes
contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/revisions.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index fe846f043c..3d4b79c480 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -107,11 +107,13 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. found. * A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text (e.g. `:/fix nasty bug`): this names - a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text. + a commit whose commit message matches the specified regular expression. This name returns the youngest matching commit which is reachable from any ref. If the commit message starts with a '!', you have to repeat that; the special sequence ':/!', followed by something else than '!' is reserved for now. + The regular expression can match any part of the commit message. To + match messages starting with a string, one can use e.g. `:/^foo`. * A suffix ':' followed by a path (e.g. `HEAD:README`); this names the blob or tree at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part |