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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-07-22 10:17:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-07-22 10:17:34 -0700 |
| commit | bba6acb335e296ed692b4aea224b50fd098f693c (patch) | |
| tree | bcfc75dd8f4706be2a19a51120c14b32cda473c5 /Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | |
| parent | 5c0b13f85ab3a5326508b854768eb70c8829cda4 (diff) | |
| parent | d31f3ad23dd1aee3c3e1015a43b02b995c01a9a1 (diff) | |
| download | git-bba6acb335e296ed692b4aea224b50fd098f693c.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'maint-1.9' into maint
* maint-1.9:
Documentation: fix missing text for rev-parse --verify
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt')
| -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 987395d22a..54143a0693 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ 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` |