From: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:51:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method
Message-ID: <484327FB.8080105@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080601215449.GC29404@genesis.frugalware.org>

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there *any* name for the identifiers you pass into git-rev-parse
>> (like HEAD^2 or master:test/foo.txt)?
> 
> `man git-rev-parse` calls them "revisions". Yes, even the commit:path
> ones.

True -- it's quite cringeworthy indeed. ;)  As long as it only affects 
the documentation for that particular method, I'll go with "revision".

-- Lea