Git 1.9.1

diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index b0f4284cfbec9745d25fb242d32f808c83d0953f..5a286d0d61ffc5b3daa00d7d550d5931a91b35ec 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file.
 While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred as
 some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
 
+'@'::
+  '@' alone is a shortcut for 'HEAD'.
+
 '<refname>@\{<date>\}', e.g. 'master@\{yesterday\}', 'HEAD@\{5 minutes ago\}'::
   A ref followed by the suffix '@' with a date specification
   enclosed in a brace
@@ -85,7 +88,7 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
   branch 'blabla' then '@\{1\}' means the same as 'blabla@\{1\}'.
 
 '@\{-<n>\}', e.g. '@\{-1\}'::
-  The construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch checked out
+  The construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch/commit checked out
   before the current one.
 
 '<branchname>@\{upstream\}', e.g. 'master@\{upstream\}', '@\{u\}'::
@@ -125,6 +128,9 @@ some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
 object that exists, without requiring 'rev' to be a tag, and
 without dereferencing 'rev'; because a tag is already an object,
 it does not have to be dereferenced even once to get to an object.
++
+'rev{caret}\{tag\}' can be used to ensure that 'rev' identifies an
+existing tag object.
 
 '<rev>{caret}\{\}', e.g. 'v0.99.8{caret}\{\}'::
   A suffix '{caret}' followed by an empty brace pair