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[PATCH v5 06/12] doc: revisions: single vs multi-parent notation comparison

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From: Philip Oakley <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-12 07:09:35
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Revision v5 of 2 in this series.

Revisions (2)
  1. v5 current
  2. v6 [diff vs current]
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <redacted>
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new
Junio's final comment https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqwpkq6b4d.fsf%40gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/
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 Documentation/revisions.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 0b5044d..934d071 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -284,6 +284,10 @@ The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all parents of 'r1'.
 'r1{caret}!' notation includes commit 'r1' but excludes all of its parents.
 This is the single commit 'r1', if standalone.
 
+While '<rev>{caret}<n>' was about specifying a single commit parent, these
+two notations consider all its parents. For example you can say
+'HEAD{caret}2^@', however you cannot say 'HEAD{caret}@{caret}2'.
+
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