Merge branch 'sb/maint-1.6.0-add-config-fix' into maint

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 3ccef2f2b3295c6d5e14b8f3a9d354d7b57598da..52c353e674761bf4897484a261c702e5cc02f18a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --parseopt::
        Use 'git-rev-parse' in option parsing mode (see PARSEOPT section below).
 
---keep-dash-dash::
+--keep-dashdash::
        Only meaningful in `--parseopt` mode. Tells the option parser to echo
        out the first `--` met instead of skipping it.
 
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ OPTIONS
        unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full
        refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master").
 
+--abbrev-ref[={strict|loose}]::
+       A non-ambiguous short name of the objects name.
+       The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
+       abbreviation mode.
+
 --all::
        Show all refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs`.
 
@@ -299,18 +304,18 @@ previous section means the set of commits reachable from that
 commit, following the commit ancestry chain.
 
 To exclude commits reachable from a commit, a prefix `{caret}`
-notation is used.  E.g. "`{caret}r1 r2`" means commits reachable
+notation is used.  E.g. `{caret}r1 r2` means commits reachable
 from `r2` but exclude the ones reachable from `r1`.
 
 This set operation appears so often that there is a shorthand
 for it.  When you have two commits `r1` and `r2` (named according
 to the syntax explained in SPECIFYING REVISIONS above), you can ask
 for commits that are reachable from r2 excluding those that are reachable
-from r1 by "`{caret}r1 r2`" and it can be written as "`r1..r2`".
+from r1 by `{caret}r1 r2` and it can be written as `r1..r2`.
 
-A similar notation "`r1\...r2`" is called symmetric difference
+A similar notation `r1\...r2` is called symmetric difference
 of `r1` and `r2` and is defined as
-"`r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)`".
+`r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)`.
 It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of
 `r1` or `r2` but not from both.