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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 4a27643c1e..02c44c999f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -136,7 +136,12 @@ appending `/{asterisk}`. directory (typically a sequence of "../", or an empty string). --git-dir:: - Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined else show the path to the .git directory. + Show `$GIT_DIR` if defined. Otherwise show the path to + the .git directory, relative to the current directory. ++ +If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory +is not detected to lie in a git repository or work tree +print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. --is-inside-git-dir:: When the current working directory is below the repository @@ -303,16 +308,6 @@ $ git rev-parse --default master --verify $REV + but if $REV is empty, the commit object name from master will be printed. - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> . -Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |