Re: [PATCH] revisions.txt: correct a mistake in dotted range notations section

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 2, 2023, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID: <64514101af396_1ba2d294cd@chronos.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <CAPx1GverCci3SZQEMvFX_q7r3XSTKmPizfcj8QcvGNud7reY9g@mail.gmail.com>

Chris Torek wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 1:00 AM Pooyan Khanjankhani via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Pooyan Khanjankhani <p.khanjankhani@digikala.com>
> >
> > Insert a missing 'not' word in a negative sentence.
> >   ... but are [not] reachable from neither A or C.
> 
> There's a peculiarity of the English language here that means you
> should not use the word "not". The actual error is using "or" as
> the conjunction, instead of "nor": the construct should read
> "neither <alternative 1> nor <alternative 2>", and it means that
> both alternatives are rejected.

But it's not the same to say "not reachable from either A or C", and "reachable from neither A nor C". In the latter if a commit is reachable from X (or anything other than A or C), it should be included.

So A~ would be included, because it's reachable from B and reachable from not A (i.e. B).

It should be "not reachable from either A or C".

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras