Andreas Heiduk writes:
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk
> ---
> Documentation/revisions.txt | 6 ++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
> index dfcc49c72c..c1d3a40a90 100644
> --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
> @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ syntax. Here are various ways to spell object names. The
> ones listed near the end of this list name trees and
> blobs contained in a commit.
>
> +NOTE: This document shows the "raw" syntax as seen by git. The shell
> +and other UIs might require additional quoting to protect special
> +characters and to avoid word splitting.
> +
> '', e.g. 'dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735', 'dae86e'::
>The full SHA-1 object name (40-byte hexadecimal string), or
>a leading substring that is unique within the repository.
> @@ -186,6 +190,8 @@ existing tag object.
>is matched. ':/!-foo' performs a negative match, while ':/!!foo' matches a
>literal '!' character, followed by 'foo'. Any other sequence beginning with
>':/!' is reserved for now.
> + Depending on the given text the shell's word splitting rules might
> + require additional quoting.
>
> ':', e.g. 'HEAD:README', ':README', 'master:./README'::
>A suffix ':' followed by a path names the blob or tree
I've seen this suggested before and thought it is a good idea. GOod
to see it is finally happening ;-) Thanks.