From: Jakub Narębski Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 13:01:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 09/12] doc: revisions - define `reachable` Message-ID: <494c1bd2-19c8-e2af-da1c-ff1331f91c4f@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20160812070749.2920-10-philipoakley@iee.org> W dniu 12.08.2016 o 09:07, Philip Oakley pisze: [...] > 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. Why such strange formatting? Is it to keep original contents for better blame / word diff? > + > +A commit's reachable set is the commit itself and the commits in > +its ancestry chain. > + It is all right, but perhaps it would be better to just repeat: +Set of commits reachable from given commit is the commit itself +and all the commits in its ancestry chain. -- Jakub Narębski