Max Resnick <max.resnick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Thanks Junio for the quick response.
>
>> Presumably the long hexadecimal are supposed to be on the same line
>> as the "name-rev" command itself?
>
> Yes, sorry I didn't see that the formatting was broken before I sent.
>
>> The suffix "^0" (which has nothing to do
>> with null-termination) means "I do not mean the tag object itself,
>> but the object that is pointed by it".
>
> Ok, thanks. I need to unpack that a bit more. I tried to dig around in
> the man to see if there was indication if that's what was expected but
> didn't find anything at less for name-rev.
"git help revisions" has this, which may help.
<rev>^[<n>], e.g. HEAD^, v1.5.1^0
A suffix ^ to a revision parameter means the first
parent of that commit object. ^<n> means the
<n>th parent (i.e. <rev>^ is equivalent to
<rev>^1). As a special rule, <rev>^0 means the
commit itself and is used when <rev> is the object
name of a tag object that refers to a commit
object.
The help text in "git help name-rev" only says "names suitable for
human digestion", which may want to be clarified.
Thanks.
