Re: [PATCH] doc: revisions: improve single range explanation

[Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 13/06/21 07.44, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> The original explanation didn't seem clear enough to some people.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/revisions.txt | 22 +++++++++++-----------
>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
> index f5f17b65a1..d8cf512686 100644
> --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
> @@ -299,22 +299,22 @@ empty range that is both reachable and unreachable from HEAD.
>   
>   Commands that are specifically designed to take two distinct ranges
>   (e.g. "git range-diff R1 R2" to compare two ranges) do exist, but
> -they are exceptions.  Unless otherwise noted, all "git" commands
> +they are exceptions.  Unless otherwise noted, all git commands
>   that operate on a set of commits work on a single revision range.
> -In other words, writing two "two-dot range notation" next to each
> -other, e.g.
>   
> -    $ git log A..B C..D
> +For example, if you have a linear history like this:
>   
> -does *not* specify two revision ranges for most commands.  Instead
> -it will name a single connected set of commits, i.e. those that are
> -reachable from either B or D but are reachable from neither A or C.
> -In a linear history like this:
> +    ---A---B---C---D---E---F
>   
> -    ---A---B---o---o---C---D
> +Doing A..F will retrieve 5 commits, and doing B..E will retrieve 3
> +commits, but doing A..F B..E will not retrieve two revision ranges
> +totalling 8 commits. Instead the starting point A gets overriden by B,
> +and the ending point of E by F, effectively becoming B..F, a single
> +revision range.
> 


AFAIK, A..F means all commits from A to F. But in case of branched 
history like

     ---A---B---C---G---H---I <- main
                \
                 ---D---E---F <- mybranch

the notation main..mybranch means all commits that are reachable from 
mybranch but not from main, but the opposite (mybranch..main) means the 
opposite!

So basically the right-hand side of two dot notation specifies from what 
commit I want to select the range, and the left-hand side specifies the 
commit which I don't want to reach.

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