The empty treeish in ":path" means "index", not "HEAD" like in probably every other place. Don't even try to change this, but at least document it. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 8db600f..f964de4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -290,8 +290,9 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. 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. + at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the ref + before the colon. An empty ref before ':' denotes the content + recorded in the index at the given path. * A colon, optionally followed by a stage number (0 to 3) and a colon, followed by a path; this names a blob object in the -- 1.7.1.621.g01d76 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html