From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:29:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] git send-email suppress-cc=self fixes
Message-ID: <20130610072931.GH22905@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20130610065324.GA26501@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 09:53:24AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I vaguely remember there was some way to say
> "head of the remote I am tracking" - but I could not find it.
> Where are all the tricks like foo^{} documented?

gitrevisions(7) is what you're looking for here.

In this case I think you want '@{upstream}' or its short form '@{u}'.

> I tried fgrep '{}' Documentation/*txt and it only returned
> git-show-ref.txt which isn't really informative ...

'{' and '}' need to be escaped in AsciiDoc so you have to grep for
'\\{\\}'.