From b3d3ea0672777e1ce3baf4a8a571a09704eb067e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Oakley Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:10:01 +0100 Subject: doc: revisions - name the left and right sides The terms left and right side originate from the symmetric difference. Name them there. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/revisions.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index d85e303364..9fcad8a440 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ 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 -- cgit v1.2.3