[PATCH 3/4] glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish)
From: Richard Hansen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:49
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Mention dereferencing, and that a commit dereferences to a tree, to support gitrevisions(7) and rev-parse's error messages. Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <redacted> --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index a3cc003..9a50fe1 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt@@ -498,9 +498,19 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec. <<def_tree,tree>> is equivalent to a <<def_directory,directory>>. [[def_tree-ish]]tree-ish (also treeish):: - A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to either a <<def_commit_object,commit - object>>, a <<def_tree_object,tree object>>, or a <<def_tag_object,tag - object>> pointing to a tag or commit or tree object. + A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to an <<def_object,object>> that + can be recursively dereferenced to a + <<def_tree_object,tree object>>. + Dereferencing a <<def_commit_object,commit object>> yields the + tree object corresponding to the <<def_revision,revision>>'s + top <<def_directory,directory>>. + The following are all tree-ishes: + a <<def_committish,committish>>, + a ref pointing to a tree object, + a ref pointing to a <<def_tag_object,tag object>> that points + to a tree object, + a ref pointing to a tag object that points to a tag object + that points to a tree object, etc. [[def_unmerged_index]]unmerged index:: An <<def_index,index>> which contains unmerged
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