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 <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")"
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If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in
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your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object
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-you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
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+you require, you can add "\^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
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For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR`
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names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an
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annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR`