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[PATCH] Fix grammar in git-rev-parse(1).

From: Mikael Magnusson <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:53
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

---
 Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 59e95ad..ba65bfa 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -301,9 +301,9 @@ It is the set of commits that are reachable from
either one of
 `r1` or `r2` but not from both.

 Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit
-and its parent commits exists.  `r1{caret}@` notation means all
+and its parent commits exist.  The `r1{caret}@` notation means all
 parents of `r1`.  `r1{caret}!` includes commit `r1` but excludes
-its all parents.
+all of its parents.

 Here are a handful of examples:

-- 
1.5.6.GIT


2008/7/6 Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:
"Dmitry Potapov" [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
There is shortcut for rev^..rev, namely rev^! (I'm not sure if it is
documented anywhere, though),
The latter is not exactly a shortcut for the former.  You can try it at any
merge commit, and you will see different log. For instance, in Git repo:
...
So, I believe, rev^! means --first-parent rev^..rev
Not quite.  From Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt:

   SPECIFYING RANGES
   -----------------

   Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit
   and its parent commits exists.  `r1{caret}@` notation means all
   parents of `r1`.  `r1{caret}!` includes commit `r1` but excludes
   its all parents.
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