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| author |  Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch> | 2014-01-19 08:01:15 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-01-21 13:50:00 -0800 |
| commit | 75d6e552a8f289fb0ee606a7bdfceace6df93bb3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0df0521684eceeae01a28f603f9189a552700ad8 /Documentation | |
| parent | git-svn: workaround for a bug in svn serf backend (diff) | |
| download | tgif-75d6e552a8f289fb0ee606a7bdfceace6df93bb3.tar.xz | |
Documentation: @{-N} can refer to a commit
The @{-N} syntax always referred to the N-th last thing checked out,
which can be either a branch or a commit (for detached HEAD cases).
However, the documentation only mentioned branches.
Edit in a "/commit" in the appropriate places.
Reported-by: Kevin <ikke@ikke.info>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 91294f89c8..33ad2adf5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -232,8 +232,8 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. commit, your HEAD becomes "detached" and you are no longer on any branch (see below for details). + -As a special case, the `"@{-N}"` syntax for the N-th last branch -checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify +As a special case, the `"@{-N}"` syntax for the N-th last branch/commit +checks out branches (instead of detaching). You may also specify `-` which is synonymous with `"@{-1}"`. + As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 2c06ed34ad..5a286d0d61 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. branch 'blabla' then '@\{1\}' means the same as 'blabla@\{1\}'. '@\{-<n>\}', e.g. '@\{-1\}':: - The construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch checked out + The construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch/commit checked out before the current one. '<branchname>@\{upstream\}', e.g. 'master@\{upstream\}', '@\{u\}':: |