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[PATCH v2 2/7] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish)

From: Richard Hansen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:36
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <redacted>
---
 Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 0273095..b1993e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -82,6 +82,18 @@ to point at the new commit.
 	to the top <<def_directory,directory>> of the stored
 	revision.
 
+[[def_committish]]committish (also commit-ish)::
+	A <<def_commit_object,commit object>> or an
+	<<def_object,object>> that can be recursively dereferenced to
+	a commit object.
+	The following are all committishes:
+	a commit object,
+	a <<def_tag_object,tag object>> that points to a commit
+	object,
+	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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