user-manual: SHA1 -> object name
Prefer "object name" to SHA1, at least in higher level documentation. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ Naming commits
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We have seen several ways of naming commits already:
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- 40-hexdigit SHA1 id
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- 40-hexdigit object name
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- branch name: refers to the commit at the head of the given
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branch
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- tag name: refers to the commit pointed to by the given tag
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@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ gitlink:git-rev-parse[1] man page for the complete list of ways to
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name revisions. Some examples:
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$ git show fb47ddb2 # the first few characters of the SHA1 id
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$ git show fb47ddb2 # the first few characters of the object name
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# are usually enough to specify it uniquely
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$ git show HEAD^ # the parent of the HEAD commit
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$ git show HEAD^^ # the grandparent
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@ -743,8 +743,8 @@ which refers to the other branch that we're merging in to the current
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branch.
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The gitlink:git-rev-parse[1] command is a low-level command that is
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occasionally useful for translating some name for a commit to the SHA1 id for
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that commit:
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occasionally useful for translating some name for a commit to the object
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name for that commit:
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$ git rev-parse origin
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@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ $ git diff origin..master
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will tell you whether the contents of the project are the same at the
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two branches; in theory, however, it's possible that the same project
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contents could have been arrived at by two different historical
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routes. You could compare the SHA1 id's:
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routes. You could compare the object names:
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$ git rev-list origin
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