From: Christian Couder Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 04:51:41 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: rev-parse: add a few "--verify" and "--default" examples Message-ID: <20080513065141.69ff4975.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder --- Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index b6b2fe9..1d10893 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -378,6 +378,31 @@ C? option C with an optional argument" eval `echo "$OPTS_SPEC" | git-rev-parse --parseopt -- "$@" || echo exit $?` ------------ +EXAMPLES +-------- + +* Print the SHA1 object name of the current commit: ++ +------------ +$ git rev-parse --verify HEAD +------------ + +* Print the commit SHA1 from the revision in the $REV shell variable: ++ +------------ +$ git rev-parse --verify $REV +------------ ++ +This will error out if $REV is empty or not a valid revision. + +* Same as above: ++ +------------ +$ git rev-parse --default master --verify $REV +------------ ++ +but if $REV is empty, the commit SHA1 from master will be printed. + Author ------ -- 1.5.5.1.347.g28d6