Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2023-05-02

Re: [PATCH] revisions.txt: correct a mistake in dotted range notations section

From: Felipe Contreras <hidden>
Date: 2023-05-02 16:57:43

Chris Torek wrote:
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 1:00 AM Pooyan Khanjankhani via GitGitGadget
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
From: Pooyan Khanjankhani <redacted>

Insert a missing 'not' word in a negative sentence.
  ... but are [not] reachable from neither A or C.
There's a peculiarity of the English language here that means you
should not use the word "not". The actual error is using "or" as
the conjunction, instead of "nor": the construct should read
"neither <alternative 1> nor <alternative 2>", and it means that
both alternatives are rejected.
But it's not the same to say "not reachable from either A or C", and
"reachable from neither A nor C". In the latter if a commit is reachable
from X (or anything other than A or C), it should be included.

So A~ would be included, because it's reachable from B and reachable
from not A (i.e. B).

It should be "not reachable from either A or C".

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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