In revisions.txt, the '<rev>^' form is mentioned but the '<rev>~' form is missing. Although both forms are essentially equivalent (they each get the first parent of the specified revision), we should mention the latter for completeness. Make this change. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/revisions.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index dd99770c47..a38ec7fb52 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ thing no matter the case. '<rev>{caret}0' means the commit itself and is used when '<rev>' is the object name of a tag object that refers to a commit object. -'<rev>{tilde}<n>', e.g. 'master{tilde}3':: +'<rev>{tilde}[<n>]', e.g. 'HEAD{tilde}, master{tilde}3':: + A suffix '{tilde}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of + that commit object. A suffix '{tilde}<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit object that is the <n>th generation ancestor of the named commit object, following only the first parents. I.e. '<rev>{tilde}3' is -- 2.21.0.1049.geb646f7864