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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-03-02 19:49:06 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-03-02 19:49:06 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'maint'
* maint: Documentation: do not assume that n > 1 in <rev>~$n
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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file.
'<rev>{tilde}<n>', e.g. 'master{tilde}3'::
A suffix '{tilde}<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit
- object that is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named
+ object that is the <n>th generation ancestor of the named
commit object, following only the first parents. I.e. '<rev>{tilde}3' is
equivalent to '<rev>{caret}{caret}{caret}' which is equivalent to
'<rev>{caret}1{caret}1{caret}1'. See below for an illustration of