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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-07-22 10:16:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-07-22 10:16:50 -0700 |
| commit | d31f3ad23dd1aee3c3e1015a43b02b995c01a9a1 (patch) | |
| tree | a2e4916ff989c8f61c96f21bcc1208e381fbe435 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'maint-1.8.5' into maint-1.9 (diff) | |
| parent | Documentation: fix missing text for rev-parse --verify (diff) | |
| download | tgif-d31f3ad23dd1aee3c3e1015a43b02b995c01a9a1.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'maint-1.8.5' into maint-1.9
* maint-1.8.5:
Documentation: fix missing text for rev-parse --verify
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -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 0d2cdcde55..55ea1a037d 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` |