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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |