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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 6f2f83f8a2..b5d9d1b381 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ thing no matter the case. '<rev>{caret}0' means the commit itself and is used when '<rev>' is the object name of a tag object that refers to a commit object. -'<rev>{tilde}<n>', e.g. 'master{tilde}3':: +'<rev>{tilde}[<n>]', e.g. 'HEAD{tilde}, master{tilde}3':: + A suffix '{tilde}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of + that commit object. A suffix '{tilde}<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit object that is the <n>th generation ancestor of the named commit object, following only the first parents. I.e. '<rev>{tilde}3' is |