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| author | brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> | 2014-07-21 23:00:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-07-22 10:10:57 -0700 |
| commit | e6aaa393478bf3ee9f4cde8d82cd258c034cd335 (patch) | |
| tree | c70c1fff1f96430691ba3e4634610a92bc92ffbf | |
| parent | 8c2cfa55446f542454eb4acc7f49d1747e425c94 (diff) | |
| download | git-e6aaa393478bf3ee9f4cde8d82cd258c034cd335.tar.gz | |
Documentation: fix missing text for rev-parse --verify
The caret (^) is used as a markup symbol in AsciiDoc. Due to the
inability of AsciiDoc to parse a line containing an unmatched caret, it
omitted the line from the output, resulting in the man page missing the
end of a sentence. Escape this caret so that the man page ends up with
the complete text.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index d068a65377..3cf0ce8b91 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")" + If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object -you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. +you require, you can add "\^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR` names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR` |