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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-12 14:00:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-12 14:00:34 -0700 |
| commit | eaff724bbc9c8f838b6d65fff9959da968939c3a (patch) | |
| tree | 34f4a3cdd4f3a79c5b4f96e3278b234a60386f88 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name' into maint-1.... (diff) | |
| parent | specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set (diff) | |
| download | tgif-eaff724bbc9c8f838b6d65fff9959da968939c3a.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory' into maint-1.7.11
"git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path when
there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. Update the
command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such a case.
* jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory:
specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index dc0070bcb7..69d996bc38 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -213,6 +213,13 @@ of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of 'r1' or 'r2' 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 +did I do since I forked from the origin branch?" Similarly, '..origin' +is a shorthand for 'HEAD..origin' and asks "What did the origin do since +I forked from them?" Note that '..' would mean 'HEAD..HEAD' which is an +empty range that is both reachable and unreachable from HEAD. + Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit and its parent commits exist. The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all parents of 'r1'. 'r1{caret}!' includes commit 'r1' but excludes |