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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 2921da320d..5ed2bc840f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -212,6 +212,9 @@ when you run 'git-merge'. reflog of the current branch. For example, if you are on the branch 'blabla', then '@\{1\}' means the same as 'blabla@\{1\}'. +* The special construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch checked out + before the current one. + * A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of that commit object. '{caret}<n>' means the <n>th parent (i.e. 'rev{caret}' @@ -296,18 +299,18 @@ previous section means the set of commits reachable from that commit, following the commit ancestry chain. To exclude commits reachable from a commit, a prefix `{caret}` -notation is used. E.g. "`{caret}r1 r2`" means commits reachable +notation is used. E.g. `{caret}r1 r2` means commits reachable from `r2` but exclude the ones reachable from `r1`. This set operation appears so often that there is a shorthand for it. When you have two commits `r1` and `r2` (named according to the syntax explained in SPECIFYING REVISIONS above), you can ask for commits that are reachable from r2 excluding those that are reachable -from r1 by "`{caret}r1 r2`" and it can be written as "`r1..r2`". +from r1 by `{caret}r1 r2` and it can be written as `r1..r2`. -A similar notation "`r1\...r2`" is called symmetric difference +A similar notation `r1\...r2` is called symmetric difference of `r1` and `r2` and is defined as -"`r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)`". +`r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)`. It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of `r1` or `r2` but not from both. |