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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-01-27 18:45:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-01-27 18:45:31 (GMT) |
| commit | c380cf85a79c78d9dceb9290c9d4017d30804521 (patch) | |
| tree | 642001713f918aaa60fdc264994ae7a344a5b4bb /Documentation | |
| parent | bf3939901bd18f9d22f1b54323d2dd8032ec8051 (diff) | |
| parent | 75d6e552a8f289fb0ee606a7bdfceace6df93bb3 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'tr/nth-previous-is-a-commit'
* tr/nth-previous-is-a-commit:
Documentation: @{-N} can refer to a commit
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 91294f8..33ad2ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -232,8 +232,8 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. commit, your HEAD becomes "detached" and you are no longer on any branch (see below for details). + -As a special case, the `"@{-N}"` syntax for the N-th last branch -checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify +As a special case, the `"@{-N}"` syntax for the N-th last branch/commit +checks out branches (instead of detaching). You may also specify `-` which is synonymous with `"@{-1}"`. + As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 2c06ed3..5a286d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. branch 'blabla' then '@\{1\}' means the same as 'blabla@\{1\}'. '@\{-<n>\}', e.g. '@\{-1\}':: - The construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch checked out + The construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch/commit checked out before the current one. '<branchname>@\{upstream\}', e.g. 'master@\{upstream\}', '@\{u\}':: |