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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 8db600f6ba..d525e577b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -291,7 +291,9 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. * A suffix ':' followed by a path; this names the blob or tree at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part - before the colon. + before the colon. ":path" (with an empty part before the colon) + is a special case of the syntax described next: content + recorded in the index at the given path. * A colon, optionally followed by a stage number (0 to 3) and a colon, followed by a path; this names a blob object in the |