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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-07-22 12:55:07 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-07-22 12:55:07 -0700
commit0958a24d7360759902f802744c0839c8029659d7 (patch)
treef22a0b0f2cb4dc8e7c4e0b5a053d0bac01c445bf /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date' (diff)
parentt1512: match the "other" object names (diff)
downloadtgif-0958a24d7360759902f802744c0839c8029659d7.tar.xz
Merge branch 'jc/sha1-name-more'
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish, and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names. * jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits) t1512: match the "other" object names t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix> rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish reset: the command takes committish commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish() sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context() sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags get_sha1(): fix error status regression sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res" ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt6
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 4cc3e9586f..3c63561f02 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ OPTIONS
The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
abbreviation mode.
+--disambiguate=<prefix>::
+ Show every object whose name begins with the given prefix.
+ The <prefix> must be at least 4 hexadecimal digits long to
+ avoid listing each and every object in the repository by
+ mistake.
+
--all::
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