From: brian m. carlson Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:00:35 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Documentation: fix missing text for rev-parse --verify X-Git-Tag: v2.0.3~18^2^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e6aaa393478bf3ee9f4cde8d82cd258c034cd335;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git Documentation: fix missing text for rev-parse --verify The caret (^) is used as a markup symbol in AsciiDoc. Due to the inability of AsciiDoc to parse a line containing an unmatched caret, it omitted the line from the output, resulting in the man page missing the end of a sentence. Escape this caret so that the man page ends up with the complete text. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index d068a65377..3cf0ce8b91 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")" + If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object -you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. +you require, you can add "\^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR` names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR`