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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 4041a1607081ee6e8d93065c67fc72a513c20b17..a8bf6561e1d8059f12d1a548cf74dc4815e6a34f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -190,6 +190,13 @@ blobs contained in a commit.
   and dereference the tag recursively until a non-tag object is
   found.
 
+* A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text: this names
+  a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text.
+  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.
+
 * 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.
@@ -258,14 +265,14 @@ its all parents.
 
 Here are a handful examples:
 
-   D                A B D
-   D F              A B C D F
-   ^A G             B D
-   ^A F             B C F
-   G...I            C D F G I
-   ^B G I           C D F G I
-   F^@              A B C
-   F^! H            D F H
+   D                G H D
+   D F              G H I J D F
+   ^G D             H D
+   ^D B             E I J F B
+   B...C            G H D E B C
+   ^D B C           E I J F B C
+   C^@              I J F
+   F^! D            G H D F
 
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