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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sha1_name.c | 1 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index fe846f043c..3d4b79c480 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -107,11 +107,13 @@ the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. found. * A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text (e.g. `:/fix nasty bug`): this names - a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text. + a commit whose commit message matches the specified regular expression. This name returns the youngest matching commit which is reachable from any ref. If the commit message starts with a '!', you have to repeat that; the special sequence ':/!', followed by something else than '!' is reserved for now. + The regular expression can match any part of the commit message. To + match messages starting with a string, one can use e.g. `:/^foo`. * A suffix ':' followed by a path (e.g. `HEAD:README`); this names the blob or tree at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index 7b7e61719f..484081de82 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -1062,6 +1062,7 @@ int get_sha1_with_context_1(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1, /* sha1:path --> object name of path in ent sha1 * :path -> object name of path in index * :[0-3]:path -> object name of path in index at stage + * :/foo -> recent commit matching foo */ if (name[0] == ':') { int stage = 0; |