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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-09-08 21:49:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-09-08 21:49:49 -0700 |
| commit | d0b61dc65faf6f20c6305d47b3deca978d1d5843 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b2b839d0793cf8a42dec3b6d9244e9433dec837 /Documentation/gitrevisions.txt | |
| parent | Merge branch 'rt/help-unknown' (diff) | |
| parent | doc: revisions: sort examples and fix alignment of the unchanged (diff) | |
| download | tgif-d0b61dc65faf6f20c6305d47b3deca978d1d5843.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'po/range-doc'
Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the
documentation.
* po/range-doc:
doc: revisions: sort examples and fix alignment of the unchanged
doc: revisions: show revision expansion in examples
doc: revisions - clarify reachability examples
doc: revisions - define `reachable`
doc: gitrevisions - clarify 'latter case' is revision walk
doc: gitrevisions - use 'reachable' in page description
doc: revisions: single vs multi-parent notation comparison
doc: revisions: extra clarification of <rev>^! notation effects
doc: revisions: give headings for the two and three dot notations
doc: show the actual left, right, and boundary marks
doc: revisions - name the left and right sides
doc: use 'symmetric difference' consistently
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitrevisions.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitrevisions.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt b/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt index e903eb7860..27dec5b91d 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitrevisions.txt @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ DESCRIPTION Many Git commands take revision parameters as arguments. Depending on the command, they denote a specific commit or, for commands which -walk the revision graph (such as linkgit:git-log[1]), all commits which can -be reached from that commit. In the latter case one can also specify a -range of revisions explicitly. +walk the revision graph (such as linkgit:git-log[1]), all commits which are +reachable from that commit. For commands that walk the revision graph one can +also specify a range of revisions explicitly. In addition, some Git commands (such as linkgit:git-show[1]) also take revision parameters which denote other objects than commits, e.g. blobs |