[PATCH v4 2/8] doc: revisions - name the left and right sides
From: Philip Oakley <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-20 21:10:30
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The terms left and right side originate from the symmetric difference. Name them there. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <redacted> --- Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 19314e3..6e9cd41 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. 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
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