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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 8db600f6ba..d525e577b8 100644
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+++ 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