From: Richard Hansen Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:09:38 GMT Subject: [PATCH 2/4] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish) Message-ID: <1371607780-2966-3-git-send-email-rhansen@bbn.com> In-Reply-To: <1371607780-2966-1-git-send-email-rhansen@bbn.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 01365d9..a3cc003 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -82,6 +82,17 @@ to point at the new commit. to the top <> of the stored revision. +[[def_committish]]committish (also commit-ish):: + A <> pointing to an <> that + can be recursively dereferenced to a + <>. + The following are all committishes: + a ref pointing to a commit object, + a ref pointing to a <> that points + to a commit object, + a ref pointing to a tag object that points to a tag object + that points to a commit object, etc. + [[def_core_git]]core Git:: Fundamental data structures and utilities of Git. Exposes only limited source code management tools. -- 1.8.3.1