Clarify description of <repository> argument to pull/fetch for naming remotes.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 110e7ba71f48c54cb94f35e819583826e123a8b1..5641d995180b7aed563872b2403dbd29870a2185 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -243,16 +243,18 @@ Here is an illustration, by Jon Loeliger.  Both commit nodes B
 and C are parents of commit node A.  Parent commits are ordered
 left-to-right.
 
-    G   H   I   J
-     \ /     \ /
-      D   E   F
-       \  |  / \ 
-        \ | /   |
-         \|/    |
-          B     C
-           \   /
-            \ /
-             A
+........................................
+G   H   I   J
+ \ /     \ /
+  D   E   F
+   \  |  / \
+    \ | /   |
+     \|/    |
+      B     C
+       \   /
+        \ /
+         A
+........................................
 
     A =      = A^0
     B = A^   = A^1     = A~1
@@ -347,7 +349,7 @@ Each line of options has this format:
 
        * Use `*` to mean that this option should not be listed in the usage
          generated for the `-h` argument. It's shown for `--help-all` as
-         documented in linkgit:gitcli[5].
+         documented in linkgit:gitcli[7].
 
        * Use `!` to not make the corresponding negated long option available.
 
@@ -378,6 +380,31 @@ C?        option C with an optional argument"
 eval `echo "$OPTS_SPEC" | git-rev-parse --parseopt -- "$@" || echo exit $?`
 ------------
 
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+* Print the object name of the current commit:
++
+------------
+$ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
+------------
+
+* Print the commit object name from the revision in the $REV shell variable:
++
+------------
+$ git rev-parse --verify $REV
+------------
++
+This will error out if $REV is empty or not a valid revision.
+
+* Same as above:
++
+------------
+$ git rev-parse --default master --verify $REV
+------------
++
+but if $REV is empty, the commit object name from master will be printed.
+
 
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