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Re: [PATCH 4/5] git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:56

Junio C Hamano wrote:
A list of revisions is merely a way to specify "revision range" that
are reachable from any of these revisions listed.  "log A B" won't
stop by just showing A and B (that would be "show A B"), but will
list those that are reachable from A B, so in the context of
discussing the arguments given to "git log" command, "A B" is still
"revision range".
... and what about 'git log HEAD^!'?  Is that a range?  What about
'git log HEAD:README' (hint: it doesn't error out)? I would argue that
"A B" is not inherently a revision range, but rather two revisions.
It's upto different commands to interpret it differently.

Then again, in the context of log, we just want ranges (also
considering we had <since>..<until> for this long, and I didn't even
object to it).  So I'll go with your "revision range", but I won't
claim that it's technically accurate.
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