If possible, <rev> will be dereferenced even if it is not a tag type
(e.g., commit dereferenced to a tree).
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhan...@bbn.com>
---
Documentation/revisions.txt | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 09896a3..bf563cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -114,10 +114,14 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
'<rev>{caret}\{<type>\}', e.g. 'v0.99.8{caret}\{commit\}'::
A suffix '{caret}' followed by an object type name enclosed in
- brace pair means the object
- could be a tag, and dereference the tag recursively until an
- object of that type is found or the object cannot be
- dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf). '<rev>{caret}0'
+ brace pair means dereference the object at '<rev>' recursively until
+ an object of type '<type>' is found or the object cannot be
+ dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf).
+ For example, if '<rev>' is a committish, '<rev>{caret}\{commit\}'
+ specifies the corresponding commit object.
+ Similarly, if '<rev>' is a tree-ish, '<rev>{caret}\{tree\}'
+ specifies the corresponding tree object.
+ '<rev>{caret}0'
is a short-hand for '<rev>{caret}\{commit\}'.
+
'rev{caret}\{object\}' can be used to make sure 'rev' names an
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1.8.3.1
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