[PATCH v3 7/8] doc: revisions - define `reachable`

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>

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Jul 11, 2016, 20:25 UTC

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Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---
 Documentation/revisions.txt | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 1c59e87..a3cd28b 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -237,10 +237,16 @@ SPECIFYING RANGES
 -----------------
 
 History traversing commands such as `git log` operate on a set
-of commits, not just a single commit.  To these commands,
-specifying a single revision with the notation described in the
-previous section means the set of commits reachable from that
-commit, following the commit ancestry chain.
+of commits, not just a single commit.
+
+For these commands,
+specifying a single revision, using the notation described in the
+previous section, means the `reachable` set of commits of the given
+commit.
+
+A commit's reachable set is the commit itself and the commits of
+its ancestry chain.
+
 
 The '{caret}' (caret) notation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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