From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:09:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required
Message-ID: <20130421100939.GI10429@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nHbm4La4kJ6cNzEnMas5B7Q2M=z_9d+O6iNX2r2bi98A@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

>                                               Why do you want to
> separate "revisions" (which are really just "extended SHA-1
> expressions" that incidentally resolve to commit objects) and
> "extended SHA-1 expressions that resolve to objects other than
> commits"?

No one I've met actually uses the word "revisions" to mean anything
other than the English-language meaning of "revisions", which in a Git
context is "commits".  There's value in matching common usage.