[PATCHv2] git-rev-parse.txt: Document ":path" specifier
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From: Michael J Gruber <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:00
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documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-06-15 · Re: [PATCHv2] git-rev-parse.txt: Document ":path" specifier · Matthieu Moy <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: [PATCHv2] git-rev-parse.txt: Document ":path" specifier · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: [PATCHv2] git-rev-parse.txt: Document ":path" specifier · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
The empty treeish in ":path" means "index". Document this. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <redacted> --- Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 8db600f..f964de4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt@@ -290,8 +290,9 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. followed by something else than '!' is reserved for now. * A suffix ':' followed by a path; this names the blob or tree - at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part - before the colon. + at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the ref + before the colon. An empty ref before ':' denotes the content + recorded in the index at the given path. * A colon, optionally followed by a stage number (0 to 3) and a colon, followed by a path; this names a blob object in the
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