[PATCH 2/4] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish)
From: Richard Hansen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:49
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <redacted> --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 01365d9..a3cc003 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt@@ -82,6 +82,17 @@ to point at the new commit. to the top <<def_directory,directory>> of the stored revision. +[[def_committish]]committish (also commit-ish):: + A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to an <<def_object,object>> that + can be recursively dereferenced to a + <<def_commit_object,commit object>>. + The following are all committishes: + a ref pointing to a commit object, + a ref pointing to a <<def_tag_object,tag object>> that points + to a commit object, + a ref pointing to a tag object that points to a tag object + that points to a commit object, etc. + [[def_core_git]]core Git:: Fundamental data structures and utilities of Git. Exposes only limited source code management tools.
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