Re: Git Community Book

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Scott Chacon [off-list ref] wrote:

Hey all,

I just wanted to let those of you who are interested know that I've
been making a lot of progress on the Git Community Book
(http://book.git-scm.com)
...

Hello Scott!

Nice book, I just started reading it and I have a recommendation to
make, at "Chapter 4: Git Treeishes" you write

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http://book.git-scm.com/4_git_treeishes.html
Range

Finally, you can specify a range of commits with the range spec. This
will give you all the commits between 7b593b5 and 51bea1 (where 51bea1
is most recent), excluding 7b593b5 but including 51bea1:

7b593b5..51bea1

This will include every commit since 7b593b:

7b593b..
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This in not quite correct. "commits between A and B" cannot really
apply here. I believe that "commits reachable from B and not from A"
is more precise. Actually you are already using the "reachability"
explanation at the start of "Chapter 3: Basic usage".

This issue is also described at the rev-parse man page.

Apart from that, you could also include "a...b" syntax for completeness.

-christos