From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:19:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish)
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.

> +       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.