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diff mercurial/help/revisions.txt @ 30767:bbb5cc55ab8b
help: use a single paragraph to describe full and abbreviated nodeids
The texts describing 40-digit strings and the abbreviated form are
closely related, so make it a single paragraph.
| author | Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:28:54 -0800 |
| parents | 4edd179fefb8 |
| children | e520f0f4b1cf |
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--- a/mercurial/help/revisions.txt Tue Jan 10 23:37:08 2017 -0800 +++ b/mercurial/help/revisions.txt Wed Jan 11 11:28:54 2017 -0800 @@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ treated as sequential offsets from the tip, with -1 denoting the tip, -2 denoting the revision prior to the tip, and so forth. -A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision -identifier. - +A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision identifier. A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated as a unique revision identifier and is referred to as a short-form identifier. A short-form identifier is only valid if it is the prefix