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Document pseudo-tags "null" and ".".
author Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>
date Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:23:59 -0700
parents 5a65d870871d
children ec061aaa25a4 cba2a689117d
files doc/hg.1.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/hg.1.txt	Mon Sep 10 23:34:33 2007 +0200
+++ b/doc/hg.1.txt	Tue Sep 11 13:23:59 2007 -0700
@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@
     The reserved name "tip" is a special tag that always identifies
     the most recent revision.
 
+    The reserved name "null" indicates the null revision. This is the
+    revision of an empty repository, and the parent of revision 0.
+
+    The reserved name "." indicates the working directory parent. If
+    no working directory is checked out, it is equivalent to null.
+    If an uncommitted merge is in progress, "." is the revision of
+    the first parent.
+
 SPECIFYING MULTIPLE REVISIONS
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