Mention dereferencing, and that a commit dereferences to a tree, to
support gitrevisions(7) and rev-parse's error messages.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhan...@bbn.com>
---
Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index a3cc003..9a50fe1 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -498,9 +498,19 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec.
<<def_tree,tree>> is equivalent to a <<def_directory,directory>>.
[[def_tree-ish]]tree-ish (also treeish)::
- A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to either a <<def_commit_object,commit
- object>>, a <<def_tree_object,tree object>>, or a <<def_tag_object,tag
- object>> pointing to a tag or commit or tree object.
+ A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to an <<def_object,object>> that
+ can be recursively dereferenced to a
+ <<def_tree_object,tree object>>.
+ Dereferencing a <<def_commit_object,commit object>> yields the
+ tree object corresponding to the <<def_revision,revision>>'s
+ top <<def_directory,directory>>.
+ The following are all tree-ishes:
+ a <<def_committish,committish>>,
+ a ref pointing to a tree object,
+ a ref pointing to a <<def_tag_object,tag object>> that points
+ to a tree object,
+ a ref pointing to a tag object that points to a tag object
+ that points to a tree object, etc.
[[def_unmerged_index]]unmerged index::
An <<def_index,index>> which contains unmerged
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1.8.3.1
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