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authorMichael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>2010-07-05 18:11:40 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-07-05 13:39:02 -0700
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Documentation: gitrevisions
Create a new man page gitrevisions(7) which contains the revsions and ranges documentation but not more. This uses (per include) the same bits as the pertaining section of git-rev-parse(1). Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitrevisions.txt35
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 04f69cf64e..a4c4063e50 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ MAN5_TXT=gitattributes.txt gitignore.txt gitmodules.txt githooks.txt \
gitrepository-layout.txt
MAN7_TXT=gitcli.txt gittutorial.txt gittutorial-2.txt \
gitcvs-migration.txt gitcore-tutorial.txt gitglossary.txt \
- gitdiffcore.txt gitworkflows.txt
+ gitdiffcore.txt gitrevisions.txt gitworkflows.txt
MAN_TXT = $(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN5_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT)
MAN_XML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT))
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt b/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fc4789f98e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+gitrevisions(7)
+================
+
+NAME
+----
+gitrevisions - specifying revisions and ranges for git
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+gitrevisions
+
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+
+Many Git commands take revision parameters as arguments. Depending on
+the command, they denote a specific commit or, for commands which
+walk the revision graph (such as linkgit:git-log[1]), all commits which can
+be reached from that commit. In the latter case one can also specify a
+range of revisions explicitly.
+
+In addition, some Git commands (such as linkgit:git-show[1]) also take
+revision parameters which denote other objects than commits, e.g. blobs
+("files") or trees ("directories of files").
+
+include::revisions.txt[]
+
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite