Re: [PATCH 2/4] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish)
From: Richard Hansen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:57:49
On 2013-06-19 00:19, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
Is master~3 a committish? What about :/foomery?
Yes; as documented, both of those are refs that point to a commit.
Look at the other forms in gitrevisions(7); master:quuxery,
master^{tree} are notable exceptions.
gitrevisions(7) says that master:quuxery is a ref pointing to a blob or
tree, so it is not a committish. However, if quuxery is a submodule, I
would expect master:quuxery to point to a commit object and thus be a
committish. So perhaps the <rev>:<path> description in gitrevisions(7)
should be updated to accommodate submodules.
master^{tree} is guaranteed to be a tree (if such a tree exists), so it
is not a committish.
-Richard