From: Richard Hansen Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 05:34:21 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2 2/7] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish) Message-ID: <1378100066-31889-3-git-send-email-rhansen@bbn.com> In-Reply-To: <1378100066-31889-1-git-send-email-rhansen@bbn.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 0273095..b1993e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -82,6 +82,18 @@ to point at the new commit. to the top <> of the stored revision. +[[def_committish]]committish (also commit-ish):: + A <> or an + <> that can be recursively dereferenced to + a commit object. + The following are all committishes: + a commit object, + a <> that points to a commit + object, + 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. -- 1.8.4