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| author |  Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> | 2016-07-20 22:10:01 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-07-20 15:15:16 -0700 |
| commit | b3d3ea0672777e1ce3baf4a8a571a09704eb067e (patch) | |
| tree | bfc7a572eb852aba5ad0a3bb9da3e1778d4226b7 /Documentation/revisions.txt | |
| parent | doc: use 'symmetric difference' consistently (diff) | |
| download | tgif-b3d3ea0672777e1ce3baf4a8a571a09704eb067e.tar.xz | |
doc: revisions - name the left and right sides
The terms left and right side originate from the symmetric
difference. Name them there.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index d85e303364..9fcad8a440 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ A similar notation 'r1\...r2' is called symmetric difference of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as 'r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)'. It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of -'r1' or 'r2' but not from both. +'r1' (left side) or 'r2' (right side) but not from both. In these two shorthands, you can omit one end and let it default to HEAD. For example, 'origin..' is a shorthand for 'origin..HEAD' and asks "What |