Re: [PATCH] revisions(7): clarify that most commands take a single revision range
From: Elijah Newren <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-20 16:40:46
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 7:28 PM Bagas Sanjaya [off-list ref] wrote:
On 18/05/21 18.17, Junio C Hamano wrote:quoted
+Commands that are specifically designed to take two distinct ranges +(e.g. "git range-diff R1 R2" to compare two ranges) do exist, but +they are exceptions. Unless otherwise noted, all "git" commands +that operate on a set of commits work on a single revision range. +In other words, writing two "two-dot range notation" next to each +other, e.g. + + $ git log A..B C..D + +does *not* specify two revision ranges for most commands. Instead +it will name a single connected set of commits, i.e. those that are +reachable from either B or D but are reachable from neither A or C. +In a linear history like this: + + ---A---B---o---o---C---D +
Why did you snip off the immediate next part of Junio's text which said: +because A and B are reachable from C, the revision range specified +by these two dotted ranges is a single commit D. Is this sentence hard to parse or confusing in some way? I thought this sentence would have made it pretty clear that the answer to this question:
So "git log A..B C..D" is same as "A..D", right?
was 'no', so I'm curious if that particular final sentence's wording could be improved.