Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Am I wrong > in thinking revision is nothing more than a synonym for commit? Yes. If master@{3}~2:README isn't a revision, what is it? And it fits into the Specifying Revisions section quite snugly: I see no reason to mangle the meaning of "revision". -- 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