From: Philip Oakley Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:07:46 GMT Subject: [PATCH v5 09/12] doc: revisions - define `reachable` Message-ID: <20160812070749.2920-10-philipoakley@iee.org> In-Reply-To: <20160812070749.2920-1-philipoakley@iee.org> Do not self-define `reachable`, which can lead to misunderstanding. Instead define `reachability` explictly. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley --- unchanged --- Documentation/revisions.txt | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 934d071..238be45 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 set of commits `reachable` from the given +commit. + +A commit's reachable set is the commit itself and the commits in +its ancestry chain. + Commit Exclusions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 2.9.0.windows.1