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revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form 

In revisions.txt, the '<rev>^' form is mentioned but the '<rev>~' form
is missing. Although both forms are essentially equivalent (they each
get the first parent of the specified revision), we should mention the
latter for completeness. Make this change.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Denton Liu 2019-05-05 12:07:07 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ thing no matter the case.
'<rev>{caret}0' means the commit itself and is used when '<rev>' is the
object name of a tag object that refers to a commit object.

'<rev>{tilde}<n>', e.g. 'master{tilde}3'::
'<rev>{tilde}[<n>]', e.g. 'HEAD{tilde}, master{tilde}3'::
A suffix '{tilde}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of
that commit object.
A suffix '{tilde}<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit
object that is the <n>th generation ancestor of the named
commit object, following only the first parents. I.e. '<rev>{tilde}3' is