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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-07-25 06:23:00 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-07-25 06:23:01 +0400 |
| commit | 0def7126fda12600017a1d8cd598ee0516cf60a2 (patch) | |
| tree | b6d32fc682657ea5511434178748a7a56a0f56bc /Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | |
| parent | 4274cdf44a6f4929cdcec68b788d9a6991795ff4 (diff) | |
| parent | 749f763dbbe4dbcc4082f02bf98bfc1a09427c6f (diff) | |
Merge branch 'ob/typofixes'
* ob/typofixes:
typofix: in-code comments
typofix: documentation
typofix: release notes
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 993903c9f1..2b126c0a77 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")" + If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object -you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parmeter. +you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR` names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR` |