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| author |  Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> | 2016-08-12 08:07:46 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-08-13 19:36:44 -0700 |
| commit | 0b451248b398240c92bc2d48e96d7c3838c12349 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c9c1b66894e9dbe7489ce0418b2b01bb51b948f | |
| parent | doc: gitrevisions - clarify 'latter case' is revision walk (diff) | |
| download | tgif-0b451248b398240c92bc2d48e96d7c3838c12349.tar.xz | |
doc: revisions - define `reachable`
Do not self-define `reachable`, which can lead to misunderstanding.
Instead define `reachability` explictly.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index f3a53a662b..f223a1cc40 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -236,10 +236,16 @@ SPECIFYING RANGES ----------------- History traversing commands such as `git log` operate on a set -of commits, not just a single commit. To these commands, -specifying a single revision with the notation described in the -previous section means the set of commits reachable from that -commit, following the commit ancestry chain. +of commits, not just a single commit. + +For these commands, +specifying a single revision, using the notation described in the +previous section, means the set of commits `reachable` from the given +commit. + +A commit's reachable set is the commit itself and the commits in +its ancestry chain. + Commit Exclusions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |