Merge branch 'mg/revision-doc'

* mg/revision-doc:
  Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parse
  Documentation: gitrevisions
  Documentation: split off rev doc into include file

Documentation/Makefile

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ MAN5_TXT=gitattributes.txt gitignore.txt gitmodules.txt githooks.txt \
 	gitrepository-layout.txt
 MAN7_TXT=gitcli.txt gittutorial.txt gittutorial-2.txt \
 	gitcvs-migration.txt gitcore-tutorial.txt gitglossary.txt \
-	gitdiffcore.txt gitworkflows.txt
+	gitdiffcore.txt gitrevisions.txt gitworkflows.txt
 
 MAN_TXT = $(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN5_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT)
 MAN_XML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT))

Documentation/git-cat-file.txt

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <object>::
 	The name of the object to show.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
-	the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+	the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
 
 -t::
 	Instead of the content, show the object type identified by

Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ git imposes the following rules on how references are named:
 These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse
 reference names, pathname expansion by the shell when a reference name is used
 unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain
-reference name expressions (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]):
+reference name expressions (see linkgit:gitrevisions[1]):
 
 . A double-dot `..` is often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some
   contexts this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in

Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 <commit>...::
 	Commits to cherry-pick.
-	For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see the
-	"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+	For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
+	linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
 	Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
 	default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
 	linkgit:git-rev-list[1].

Documentation/git-diff.txt

@@ -68,11 +68,11 @@ for the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
 <tree-ish>.
 
 For a more complete list of ways to spell <commit>, see
-"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
 However, "diff" is about comparing two _endpoints_, not ranges,
 and the range notations ("<commit>..<commit>" and
 "<commit>\...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the
-"SPECIFYING RANGES" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+"SPECIFYING RANGES" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
 
 OPTIONS
 -------

Documentation/git-fast-import.txt

@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ Marks must be declared (via `mark`) before they can be used.
 * A complete 40 byte or abbreviated commit SHA-1 in hex.
 
 * Any valid Git SHA-1 expression that resolves to a commit.  See
-  ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] for details.
+  ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:gitrevisions[1] for details.
 
 The special case of restarting an incremental import from the
 current branch value should be written as:

Documentation/git-format-patch.txt

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ There are two ways to specify which commits to operate on.
    that leads to the <since> to be output.
 
 2. Generic <revision range> expression (see "SPECIFYING
-   REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]) means the
+   REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1]) means the
    commits in the specified range.
 
 The first rule takes precedence in the case of a single <commit>.  To

Documentation/git-log.txt

@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
 	either <since> or <until> is omitted, it defaults to
 	`HEAD`, i.e. the tip of the current branch.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell <since>
-	and <until>, see "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in
-	linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+	and <until>, see linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
 
 --no-decorate::
 --decorate[=short|full|no]::

Documentation/git-push.txt

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]]
 +
 The <src> is often the name of the branch you would want to push, but
 it can be any arbitrary "SHA-1 expression", such as `master~4` or
-`HEAD` (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]).
+`HEAD` (see linkgit:gitrevisions[1]).
 +
 The <dst> tells which ref on the remote side is updated with this
 push. Arbitrary expressions cannot be used here, an actual ref must

Documentation/git-reflog.txt

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ see linkgit:git-log[1].
 The reflog is useful in various git commands, to specify the old value
 of a reference. For example, `HEAD@\{2\}` means "where HEAD used to be
 two moves ago", `master@\{one.week.ago\}` means "where master used to
-point to one week ago", and so on. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] for
+point to one week ago", and so on. See linkgit:gitrevisions[1] for
 more details.
 
 To delete single entries from the reflog, use the subcommand "delete"

Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt

@@ -174,205 +174,7 @@ shown.  If the pattern does not contain a globbing character (`?`,
 	Flags and parameters to be parsed.
 
 
-SPECIFYING REVISIONS
---------------------
-
-A revision parameter typically, but not necessarily, names a
-commit object.  They use what is called an 'extended SHA1'
-syntax.  Here are various ways to spell object names.  The
-ones listed near the end of this list are to name trees and
-blobs contained in a commit.
-
-* The full SHA1 object name (40-byte hexadecimal string), or
-  a substring of such that is unique within the repository.
-  E.g. dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735 and dae86e both
-  name the same commit object if there are no other object in
-  your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.
-
-* An output from 'git describe'; i.e. a closest tag, optionally
-  followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a
-  `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
-
-* A symbolic ref name.  E.g. 'master' typically means the commit
-  object referenced by refs/heads/master.  If you
-  happen to have both heads/master and tags/master, you can
-  explicitly say 'heads/master' to tell git which one you mean.
-  When ambiguous, a `<name>` is disambiguated by taking the
-  first match in the following rules:
-
-  . if `$GIT_DIR/<name>` exists, that is what you mean (this is usually
-    useful only for `HEAD`, `FETCH_HEAD`, `ORIG_HEAD` and `MERGE_HEAD`);
-
-  . otherwise, `refs/<name>` if exists;
-
-  . otherwise, `refs/tags/<name>` if exists;
-
-  . otherwise, `refs/heads/<name>` if exists;
-
-  . otherwise, `refs/remotes/<name>` if exists;
-
-  . otherwise, `refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD` if exists.
-+
-HEAD names the commit your changes in the working tree is based on.
-FETCH_HEAD records the branch you fetched from a remote repository
-with your last 'git fetch' invocation.
-ORIG_HEAD is created by commands that moves your HEAD in a drastic
-way, to record the position of the HEAD before their operation, so that
-you can change the tip of the branch back to the state before you ran
-them easily.
-MERGE_HEAD records the commit(s) you are merging into your branch
-when you run 'git merge'.
-+
-Note that any of the `refs/*` cases above may come either from
-the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file.
-
-* A ref followed by the suffix '@' with a date specification
-  enclosed in a brace
-  pair (e.g. '\{yesterday\}', '\{1 month 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour 1
-  second ago\}' or '\{1979-02-26 18:30:00\}') to specify the value
-  of the ref at a prior point in time.  This suffix may only be
-  used immediately following a ref name and the ref must have an
-  existing log ($GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>). Note that this looks up the state
-  of your *local* ref at a given time; e.g., what was in your local
-  `master` branch last week. If you want to look at commits made during
-  certain times, see `--since` and `--until`.
-
-* A ref followed by the suffix '@' with an ordinal specification
-  enclosed in a brace pair (e.g. '\{1\}', '\{15\}') to specify
-  the n-th prior value of that ref.  For example 'master@\{1\}'
-  is the immediate prior value of 'master' while 'master@\{5\}'
-  is the 5th prior value of 'master'. This suffix may only be used
-  immediately following a ref name and the ref must have an existing
-  log ($GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>).
-
-* You can use the '@' construct with an empty ref part to get at a
-  reflog of the current branch. For example, if you are on the
-  branch 'blabla', then '@\{1\}' means the same as 'blabla@\{1\}'.
-
-* The special construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch checked out
-  before the current one.
-
-* The suffix '@\{upstream\}' to a ref (short form 'ref@\{u\}') refers to
-  the branch the ref is set to build on top of.  Missing ref defaults
-  to the current branch.
-
-* A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter (e.g. 'HEAD{caret}') means the first parent of
-  that commit object.  '{caret}<n>' means the <n>th parent (i.e.
-  'rev{caret}'
-  is equivalent to 'rev{caret}1').  As a special rule,
-  '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.
-
-* A suffix '{tilde}<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit
-  object that is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named
-  commit object, following only the first parent.  I.e. rev~3 is
-  equivalent to rev{caret}{caret}{caret} which is equivalent to
-  rev{caret}1{caret}1{caret}1.  See below for a illustration of
-  the usage of this form.
-
-* A suffix '{caret}' followed by an object type name enclosed in
-  brace pair (e.g. `v0.99.8{caret}\{commit\}`) means the object
-  could be a tag, and dereference the tag recursively until an
-  object of that type is found or the object cannot be
-  dereferenced anymore (in which case, barf).  `rev{caret}0`
-  introduced earlier is a short-hand for `rev{caret}\{commit\}`.
-
-* A suffix '{caret}' followed by an empty brace pair
-  (e.g. `v0.99.8{caret}\{\}`) means the object could be a tag,
-  and dereference the tag recursively until a non-tag object is
-  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.
-  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.
-
-* 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
-  before the colon.
-  ':path' (with an empty part before the colon, e.g. `:README`)
-  is a special case of the syntax described next: content
-  recorded in the index at the given path.
-
-* A colon, optionally followed by a stage number (0 to 3) and a
-  colon, followed by a path (e.g. `:0:README`); this names a blob object in the
-  index at the given path. Missing stage number (and the colon
-  that follows it, e.g. `:README`) names a stage 0 entry. During a merge, stage
-  1 is the common ancestor, stage 2 is the target branch's version
-  (typically the current branch), and stage 3 is the version from
-  the branch being merged.
-
-Here is an illustration, by Jon Loeliger.  Both commit nodes B
-and C are parents of commit node A.  Parent commits are ordered
-left-to-right.
-
-........................................
-G   H   I   J
- \ /     \ /
-  D   E   F
-   \  |  / \
-    \ | /   |
-     \|/    |
-      B     C
-       \   /
-        \ /
-         A
-........................................
-
-    A =      = A^0
-    B = A^   = A^1     = A~1
-    C = A^2  = A^2
-    D = A^^  = A^1^1   = A~2
-    E = B^2  = A^^2
-    F = B^3  = A^^3
-    G = A^^^ = A^1^1^1 = A~3
-    H = D^2  = B^^2    = A^^^2  = A~2^2
-    I = F^   = B^3^    = A^^3^
-    J = F^2  = B^3^2   = A^^3^2
-
-
-SPECIFYING RANGES
------------------
-
-History traversing commands such as 'git log' operate on a set
-of commits, not just a single commit.  To these commands,
-specifying a single revision with the notation described in the
-previous section means the set of commits reachable from that
-commit, following the commit ancestry chain.
-
-To exclude commits reachable from a commit, a prefix `{caret}`
-notation is used.  E.g. `{caret}r1 r2` means commits reachable
-from `r2` but exclude the ones reachable from `r1`.
-
-This set operation appears so often that there is a shorthand
-for it.  When you have two commits `r1` and `r2` (named according
-to the syntax explained in SPECIFYING REVISIONS above), you can ask
-for commits that are reachable from r2 excluding those that are reachable
-from r1 by `{caret}r1 r2` and it can be written as `r1..r2`.
-
-A similar notation `r1\...r2` is called symmetric difference
-of `r1` and `r2` and is defined as
-`r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)`.
-It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of
-`r1` or `r2` but not from both.
-
-Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit
-and its parent commits exist.  The `r1{caret}@` notation means all
-parents of `r1`.  `r1{caret}!` includes commit `r1` but excludes
-all of its parents.
-
-Here are a handful of examples:
-
-   D                G H D
-   D F              G H I J D F
-   ^G D             H D
-   ^D B             E I J F B
-   B...C            G H D E B C
-   ^D B C           E I J F B C
-   C^@              I J F
-   F^! D            G H D F
+include::revisions.txt[]
 
 PARSEOPT
 --------

Documentation/git-revert.txt

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <commit>...::
 	Commits to revert.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
-	"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+	linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
 	Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by
 	default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its '--no-walk'
 	option.

Documentation/git-show-branch.txt

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ no <rev> nor <glob> is given on the command line.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <rev>::
-	Arbitrary extended SHA1 expression (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1])
+	Arbitrary extended SHA1 expression (see linkgit:gitrevisions[1])
 	that typically names a branch head or a tag.
 
 <glob>::

Documentation/git-show.txt

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <object>...::
 	The names of objects to show.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
-	"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+	"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
 
 include::pretty-options.txt[]
 

Documentation/git.txt

@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ HEAD::
 	(i.e. the contents of `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/<head>`).
 
 For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
-"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
 
 
 File/Directory Structure

Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt

@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ commits from the master branch.  The string inside brackets
 before the commit log message is a short name you can use to
 name the commit.  In the above example, 'master' and 'mybranch'
 are branch heads.  'master^' is the first parent of 'master'
-branch head.  Please see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] if you want to
+branch head.  Please see linkgit:gitrevisions[1] if you want to
 see more complex cases.
 
 [NOTE]

Documentation/gitk.txt

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ frequently used options.
 	the form "'<from>'..'<to>'" to show all revisions between '<from>' and
 	back to '<to>'. Note, more advanced revision selection can be applied.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
-	"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+	linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
 
 <path>...::
 

Documentation/gitrevisions.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+gitrevisions(7)
+================
+
+NAME
+----
+gitrevisions - specifying revisions and ranges for git
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+gitrevisions
+
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+
+Many Git commands take revision parameters as arguments. Depending on
+the command, they denote a specific commit or, for commands which
+walk the revision graph (such as linkgit:git-log[1]), all commits which can
+be reached from that commit. In the latter case one can also specify a
+range of revisions explicitly.
+
+In addition, some Git commands (such as linkgit:git-show[1]) also take
+revision parameters which denote other objects than commits, e.g. blobs
+("files") or trees ("directories of files").
+
+include::revisions.txt[]
+
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite