From: Philip Oakley Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:07:39 GMT Subject: [PATCH v5 02/12] doc: revisions - name the left and right sides Message-ID: <20160812070749.2920-3-philipoakley@iee.org> In-Reply-To: <20160812070749.2920-1-philipoakley@iee.org> The terms left and right side originate from the symmetric difference. Name them there. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley --- unchanged --- Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 19314e3..6e9cd41 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ A similar notation 'r1\...r2' is called symmetric difference of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as 'r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)'. It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of -'r1' or 'r2' but not from both. +'r1' (left side) or 'r2' (right side) but not from both. In these two shorthands, you can omit one end and let it default to HEAD. For example, 'origin..' is a shorthand for 'origin..HEAD' and asks "What -- 2.9.0.windows.1