From: Thomas Rast Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:01:15 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: @{-N} can refer to a commit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: The @{-N} syntax always referred to the N-th last thing checked out, which can be either a branch or a commit (for detached HEAD cases). However, the documentation only mentioned branches. Edit in a "/commit" in the appropriate places. Reported-by: Kevin Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast --- This is the "minimal" edit. I'd welcome better wording for the git-commit manpage, I can't come up with any right now. Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 91294f8..33ad2ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -232,8 +232,8 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. commit, your HEAD becomes "detached" and you are no longer on any branch (see below for details). + -As a special case, the `"@{-N}"` syntax for the N-th last branch -checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify +As a special case, the `"@{-N}"` syntax for the N-th last branch/commit +checks out branches (instead of detaching). You may also specify `-` which is synonymous with `"@{-1}"`. + As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 2c06ed3..5a286d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. branch 'blabla' then '@\{1\}' means the same as 'blabla@\{1\}'. '@\{-\}', e.g. '@\{-1\}':: - The construct '@\{-\}' means the th branch checked out + The construct '@\{-\}' means the th branch/commit checked out before the current one. '@\{upstream\}', e.g. 'master@\{upstream\}', '@\{u\}':: -- 1.9.rc0.162.g8980120