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diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index c5822634fc..a8ff691492 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. object of that type is found or the object cannot be dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf). '<rev>{caret}0' is a short-hand for '<rev>{caret}\{commit\}'. ++ +'rev{caret}\{object\}' can be used to make sure 'rev' names an +object that exists, without requiring 'rev' to be a tag, and +without dereferencing 'rev'; because a tag is already an object, +it does not have to be dereferenced even once to get to an object. '<rev>{caret}\{\}', e.g. 'v0.99.8{caret}\{\}':: A suffix '{caret}' followed by an empty brace pair |