From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Organov Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual.txt: fix a few mistakes Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:34:22 +0300 Message-ID: <87sl361l1d.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> References: <87bq9x7w4d.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <20071114181858.GH14254@fieldses.org> <87lk8z3idj.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <20071116035416.GF18909@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com To: "J. Bruce Fields" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 16 12:34:50 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IszTF-0006UU-JL for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:34:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757501AbXKPLec (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:34:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757393AbXKPLec (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:34:32 -0500 Received: from javad.com ([216.122.176.236]:4487 "EHLO javad.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754717AbXKPLec (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:34:32 -0500 Received: from osv ([87.236.81.130]) by javad.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id lAGBYSi09122; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:34:28 GMT (envelope-from s.organov@javad.com) Received: from osv by osv with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IszSo-0000t1-Av; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:34:22 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20071116035416.GF18909@fieldses.org> (J. Bruce Fields's message of "Thu\, 15 Nov 2007 22\:54\:16 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "J. Bruce Fields" writes: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:36:40PM +0300, Sergei Organov wrote: >> "J. Bruce Fields" writes: [...] >> >> @@ -1567,8 +1567,8 @@ old history using, for example, >> >> $ git log master@{1} >> >> ------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> -This lists the commits reachable from the previous version of the head. >> >> -This syntax can be used to with any git command that accepts a commit, >> > >> > I actually prefer "head" here. On something like: >> > >> > A--B--C >> > / >> > o--o--o >> > \ >> > o--o--o >> > >> > >> > The term "branch" could be used to refer to the whole line of >> > development consisting of A, B, and C. The term "head", on the other >> > hand, refers to either C or a ref that points to it. We also use the >> > terms "branch head" or just "branch" for that case, but I think "head" >> > is more precise. >> >> Then I'd suggest to be precise here, e.g.: >> >> "This lists the commits reachable from the previous version of the >> "master" branch head." > > That sounds sensible to me, sure. OK, I've just submitted patch for that. -- Sergei.