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diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 0796118..e0cd03f 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -151,11 +151,12 @@ existing tag object. A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text, names a commit whose commit message matches the specified regular expression. 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. - The regular expression can match any part of the commit message. To - match messages starting with a string, one can use e.g. ':/^foo'. + reachable from any ref. The regular expression can match any part of the + commit message. To match messages starting with a string, one can use + e.g. ':/^foo'. The special sequence ':/!' is reserved for modifiers to what + is matched. ':/!-foo' performs a negative match, while ':/!!foo' matches a + literal '!' character, followed by 'foo'. Any other sequence beginning with + ':/!' is reserved for now. '<rev>:<path>', e.g. 'HEAD:README', ':README', 'master:./README':: A suffix ':' followed by a path names the blob or tree |