Re: [PATCH 2/4] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish)

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 19, 2013, 04:19 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0mo2SG+Eh1Qmy58Xo-taG_EGEj9RSx65EYhvs2CLK9dUA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1371607780-2966-3-git-send-email-rhansen@bbn.com>

Richard Hansen wrote:

> +[[def_committish]]committish (also commit-ish)::

Good.

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> +       A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to an <<def_object,object>> that
> +       can be recursively dereferenced to a
> +       <<def_commit_object,commit object>>.
> +       The following are all committishes:
> +       a ref pointing to a commit object,
> +       a ref pointing to a <<def_tag_object,tag object>> that points
> +       to a commit object,
> +       a ref pointing to a tag object that points to a tag object
> +       that points to a commit object, etc.

Is master~3 a committish? What about :/foomery? Look at the other forms in gitrevisions(7); master:quuxery, master^{tree} are notable exceptions.

Thanks.