From: "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix grammar in git-rev-parse(1).
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:34:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <237967ef0807061334t681ad234vdb37cfe56af2e483@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
---
Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 59e95ad..ba65bfa 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -301,9 +301,9 @@ It is the set of commits that are reachable from
either one of
`r1` or `r2` but not from both.
Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit
-and its parent commits exists. `r1{caret}@` notation means all
+and its parent commits exist. The `r1{caret}@` notation means all
parents of `r1`. `r1{caret}!` includes commit `r1` but excludes
-its all parents.
+all of its parents.
Here are a handful of examples:
--
1.5.6.GIT
2008/7/6 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> "Dmitry Potapov" <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There is shortcut for rev^..rev, namely rev^! (I'm not sure if it is
>>> documented anywhere, though),
>>
>> The latter is not exactly a shortcut for the former. You can try it at any
>> merge commit, and you will see different log. For instance, in Git repo:
>> ...
>> So, I believe, rev^! means --first-parent rev^..rev
>
> Not quite. From Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt:
>
> SPECIFYING RANGES
> -----------------
>
> Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit
> and its parent commits exists. `r1{caret}@` notation means all
> parents of `r1`. `r1{caret}!` includes commit `r1` but excludes
> its all parents.
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Mikael Magnusson
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