From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 16:09:43 GMT
Subject: Re: name for A..B ranges?
Message-ID: <20160624160943.GA3170@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <0648000B273C412AB7140AE959EBC99A@PhilipOakley>

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:25:59AM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:

> Is there a common name for the A..B range format (two dots) that would
> complement the A...B (three dots) symmetric range format's name?
> 
> I was looking at the --left-right distinctions and noticed that the trail
> back to the symmetric range description was rather thin (it's buried within
> gitrevisions:Specifying Ranges, and even then its called a symmetric
> difference.

I would just call it a range, or possibly a set difference. But I don't
think we have any established naming beyond that.

-Peff