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diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 7d1bd44..72daa20 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ 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. The regular expression can match any part of the + reachable from any ref, including HEAD. + 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 |