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| author | Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> | 2010-09-24 18:43:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-09-27 10:54:52 -0700 |
| commit | 95ad6d2de1f762f20edb52d139d3cc19529a581a (patch) | |
| tree | 088420388b9666595c66bdcb4561ec75023d0728 /Documentation/revisions.txt | |
| parent | 3695dc0af1bb5871430c028222d1af0a86720e62 (diff) | |
| download | git-95ad6d2de1f762f20edb52d139d3cc19529a581a.tar.gz | |
update comment and documentation for :/foo syntax
The documentation in revisions.txt did not match the implementation, and
the comment in sha1_name.c was incomplete.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/revisions.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index fe846f043c..3d4b79c480 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -107,11 +107,13 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. found. * A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text (e.g. `:/fix nasty bug`): this names - a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text. + a commit whose commit message matches the specified regular expression. This name returns the youngest matching commit which is reachable from any ref. If the commit message starts with a '!', you have to repeat that; the special sequence ':/!', followed by something else than '!' is reserved for now. + The regular expression can match any part of the commit message. To + match messages starting with a string, one can use e.g. `:/^foo`. * A suffix ':' followed by a path (e.g. `HEAD:README`); this names the blob or tree at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part |