when you run `git cherry-pick`.
+
Note that any of the 'refs/*' cases above may come either from
-the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file.
+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.
`git push` were run while `branchname` was checked out (or the current
`HEAD` if no branchname is specified). Since our push destination is
in a remote repository, of course, we report the local tracking branch
- that corresponds to that branch (i.e., something in 'refs/remotes/').
+ that corresponds to that branch (i.e., something in `refs/remotes/`).
+
Here's an example to make it more clear:
+
'<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
A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text, names
a commit whose commit message matches the specified regular expression.
This name returns the youngest matching commit which is
- reachable from any ref. The regular expression can match any part of the
+ reachable from any ref, including HEAD.
+ The regular expression can match any part of the
commit message. To match messages starting with a string, one can use
e.g. ':/^foo'. The special sequence ':/!' is reserved for modifiers to what
is matched. ':/!-foo' performs a negative match, while ':/!!foo' matches a
Depending on the given text, the shell's word splitting rules might
require additional quoting.
-'<rev>:<path>', e.g. 'HEAD:README', ':README', 'master:./README'::
+'<rev>:<path>', e.g. 'HEAD:README', 'master:./README'::
A suffix ':' followed by a path names the blob or tree
at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part
before the colon.
- ':path' (with an empty part before the colon)
- is a special case of the syntax described next: content
- recorded in the index at the given path.
A path starting with './' or '../' is relative to the current working directory.
The given path will be converted to be relative to the working tree's root directory.
This is most useful to address a blob or tree from a commit or tree that has
the same tree structure as the working tree.
-':
<n>:<path>', e.g. ':0:README', ':README'::
+':
[<n>:]<path>', e.g. ':0:README', ':README'::
A colon, optionally followed by a stage number (0 to 3) and a
colon, followed by a path, names a blob object in the
index at the given path. A missing stage number (and the colon