Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:59:26 -0700

Lea Wiemann <[email-masked]> writes:

> Miklos Vajna wrote:
>> Lea Wiemann <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> Is there *any* name for the identifiers you pass into git-rev-parse
>>> (like HEAD^2 or master:test/foo.txt)?
>>
>> `man git-rev-parse` calls them "revisions". Yes, even the commit:path
>> ones.
>
> True -- it's quite cringeworthy indeed. ;)  As long as it only affects
> the documentation for that particular method, I'll go with "revision".

I think that is sensible, and the method can stay parse_rev, not get_hash,
don't you think?