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Git name-rev --tags ouput

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What's the meaning of the following in git name-rev output. I know the commit went into 100.15 version, but what to makeof ^2~4^2~1, any pointer to documentation ?

tags/100.15^2~4^2~1
posted Aug 2, 2013 by Luv Kumar

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Please see the gitrevisions manual page https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitrevisions.html

answer Aug 2, 2013 by Deepankar Dubey
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