revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form
In revisions.txt, the '<rev>^' form is mentioned but the '<rev>~' form is missing. Although both forms are essentially equivalent (they each get the first parent of the specified revision), we should mention the latter for completeness. Make this change. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ thing no matter the case.
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'<rev>{caret}0' means the commit itself and is used when '<rev>' is the
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object name of a tag object that refers to a commit object.
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-'<rev>{tilde}<n>', e.g. 'master{tilde}3'::
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+'<rev>{tilde}[<n>]', e.g. 'HEAD{tilde}, master{tilde}3'::
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+ A suffix '{tilde}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of
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+ that commit object.
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A suffix '{tilde}<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit
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object that is the <n>th generation ancestor of the named
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commit object, following only the first parents. I.e. '<rev>{tilde}3' is