On 2013-06-19 00:19, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Is master~3 a committish? What about :/foomery? Yes; as documented, both of those are refs that point to a commit. > Look at the other forms in gitrevisions(7); master:quuxery, > master^{tree} are notable exceptions. gitrevisions(7) says that master:quuxery is a ref pointing to a blob or tree, so it is not a committish. However, if quuxery is a submodule, I would expect master:quuxery to point to a commit object and thus be a committish. So perhaps the <rev>:<path> description in gitrevisions(7) should be updated to accommodate submodules. master^{tree} is guaranteed to be a tree (if such a tree exists), so it is not a committish. -Richard -- 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