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glossary: a revision is just a commit
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The current definition of 'revision' sounds like it is saying that a
revision is a tree object.  In reality it is just a commit.

This should be especially useful for people used to other revision
control systems trying to see how familiar concepts translate into git
terms.

Reported-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jonathan Nieder authored and Junio C Hamano committed Apr 22, 2013
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<<def_merge,merge>> left behind.

[[def_revision]]revision::
A particular state of files and directories which was stored in the
<<def_object_database,object database>>. It is referenced by a
<<def_commit_object,commit object>>.
Synonym for <<def_commit,commit>> (the noun).

[[def_rewind]]rewind::
To throw away part of the development, i.e. to assign the
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