Merge git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn

[git.git] / Documentation / git-rev-parse.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 088f971b790ddd11d39ab2c3b441833961e53a0f..3ccef2f2b3295c6d5e14b8f3a9d354d7b57598da 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -155,8 +155,9 @@ blobs contained in a commit.
   name the same commit object if there are no other object in
   your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.
 
-* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, followed by a
-  dash, a `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
+* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, optionally
+  followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a
+  `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
 
 * A symbolic ref name.  E.g. 'master' typically means the commit
   object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master.  If you
@@ -211,6 +212,9 @@ when you run 'git-merge'.
   reflog of the current branch. For example, if you are on the
   branch 'blabla', then '@\{1\}' means the same as 'blabla@\{1\}'.
 
+* The special construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch checked out
+  before the current one.
+
 * A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of
   that commit object.  '{caret}<n>' means the <n>th parent (i.e.
   'rev{caret}'
@@ -426,7 +430,7 @@ but if $REV is empty, the commit object name from master will be printed.
 Author
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 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> .
-Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> and Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
+Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
 
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