From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Wildenhues Subject: [PATCH] git-rev-list.txt: rev stands for revision, not reverse. Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:45:53 +0100 Organization: Department of Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn Message-ID: <20071101084552.GA4934@ins.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 01 09:46:12 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 1InVgp-0007XX-GJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:46:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753648AbXKAIp4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 04:45:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753763AbXKAIp4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 04:45:56 -0400 Received: from merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de ([131.220.223.13]:50930 "EHLO merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753554AbXKAIpz (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 04:45:55 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (xdsl-87-78-70-152.netcologne.de [87.78.70.152]) by merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D826440000749; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:45:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from ralf by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1InVgX-0001Pd-3b; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:45:53 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: Ralf Wildenhues , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Mention revs, revisions as aliases for commit objects, to clarify that rev-list is not an abbreviation for listing in reverse order, but for listing revisions. --- Yes, believe it or not, but I stumbled over the synopsis | git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order asking myself whether rev could possibly mean "reverse". I hope this helps avoid this pitfall for others. Cheers, Ralf Documentation/git-rev-list.txt | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index 4852804..8afe34b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt @@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order starting at the -given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into account. This is -useful to produce human-readable log output. +Lists commit objects (revs, revisions) in reverse chronological order +starting at the given commit(s), taking ancestry relationship into +account. This is useful to produce human-readable log output. Commits which are stated with a preceding '{caret}' cause listing to stop at that point. Their parents are implied. Thus the following -- 1.5.3.3.g34c6d