From 95ad6d2de1f762f20edb52d139d3cc19529a581a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthieu Moy Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:43:59 +0200 Subject: update comment and documentation for :/foo syntax The documentation in revisions.txt did not match the implementation, and the comment in sha1_name.c was incomplete. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/revisions.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index fe846f043c..3d4b79c480 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -107,11 +107,13 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. found. * A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text (e.g. `:/fix nasty bug`): this names - a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text. + a commit whose commit message matches the specified regular expression. This name returns the youngest matching commit which is reachable from any ref. If the commit message starts with a '!', you have to repeat that; the special sequence ':/!', followed by something else than '!' is reserved for now. + The regular expression can match any part of the commit message. To + match messages starting with a string, one can use e.g. `:/^foo`. * A suffix ':' followed by a path (e.g. `HEAD:README`); this names the blob or tree at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part -- cgit v1.2.3