From: Michael J Gruber Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:15:22 GMT Subject: [PATCHv3] git-rev-parse.txt: Document ":path" specifier Message-ID: <6af64ac563a9a165bec7fddc779b31ae5bcb9997.1277644307.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net> In-Reply-To: <7vpqzfj8zi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> The empty treeish in ":path" means "index". This is actually a special case of the ":stage:path" syntax where it is documented, but mentioning it also together with "treeish:path" is helpful, so do it. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber --- How about this? Short description at "rev:path" but still pointing to ":stage:path". Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 8db600f..d525e57 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -291,7 +291,9 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. * A suffix ':' followed by a path; this names the blob or tree at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part - before the colon. + before the colon. ":path" (with an empty part before the colon) + is a special case of the syntax described next: content + recorded in the index at the given path. * A colon, optionally followed by a stage number (0 to 3) and a colon, followed by a path; this names a blob object in the -- 1.7.1.621.g01d76