[PATCH 0/5] Documentation/shortlog improvements · Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 5/5] git-shortlog.txt: make SYNOPSIS match log, update OPTIONS · Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of <since>..<until> · Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of <since>..<until> · Jonathan Nieder <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of <since>..<until> · Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of <since>..<until> · Jonathan Nieder <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 1/5] git-shortlog.txt: remove (-h|--help) from OPTIONS · Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 4/5] git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required · Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 2/5] builtin/shortlog.c: make usage string consistent with log · Ramkumar Ramachandra <hidden> · 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of <since>..<until>

From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:56

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

What's so confusing about it?

[...]

revision:: A particular state of files and directories which was
stored in the object database. It is referenced by a commit object.

So a revision is a tree?  ("one of the things pointed to by a commit
object, representing a particular state of files and directories")