Merge branch 'js/cvsexportcommit'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 110e7ba71f48c54cb94f35e819583826e123a8b1..69599ffb679b17ebbe6ba85c772cd10a3511d89e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ 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 +378,31 @@ 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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