Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] doc: revisions - name the Left and Right sides

Philip Oakley [off-list ref] writes:

The terms Left and Right side originate from the symmetric
difference. Name them there.
---

Sign-off?

I think it is a good idea to call them explicitly left and right,
but I do not think they need to be capitalized here or on the title
of the patch.

 In these two shorthands, you can omit one end and let it default to HEAD.
 For example, 'origin..' is a shorthand for 'origin..HEAD' and asks "What

From: "Junio C Hamano" <redacted>

Philip Oakley [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

The terms Left and Right side originate from the symmetric
difference. Name them there.
---

Sign-off?

Oops - will fix.

quoted

 Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 19314e3..79f6d03 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt

@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ A similar notation 'r1\...r2' is called symmetric 

difference
 of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as
 'r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)'.
 It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of
-'r1' or 'r2' but not from both.
+'r1' (Left side) or 'r2' (Right side) but not from both.

I think it is a good idea to call them explicitly left and right,
but I do not think they need to be capitalized here or on the title
of the patch.

OK - can fix.

quoted

 In these two shorthands, you can omit one end and let it default to 
HEAD.
 For example, 'origin..' is a shorthand for 'origin..HEAD' and asks "What

--
Philip