Re: [PATCH] document the <tree ish> <file> blob reference syntax
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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- Oct 25, 2006, 18:33 UTC
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Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
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> It is possible to specify a specific file within a tree-ish > symbolically. For example you can find the contents of > a specific file in a specific commit as below: > > git cat-file -p v1.2.4:git-prune.sh
Didn't we document this elsewhere recently in git-rev-parse? How about this instead?
-- >8 -- [PATCH] Refer to git-rev-parse:Specifying Revisions from git.txt
The brief list given in "Symbolic Identifiers" section of the main documentation is good enough for overview, but help the reader to find a more comrehensive list as needed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> --- Documentation/git.txt | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 3af6fc6..b00607e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -562,6 +562,9 @@ HEAD:: a valid head 'name' (i.e. the contents of `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/<head>`). +For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see +"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]. + File/Directory Structure ------------------------
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