From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:33:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required Message-ID: <7v8v4cwd6g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I think "branch names" was an attempt to make it more newbie >> friendly by sacrificing technical accuracy. With the suggested >> update (see the review for the previous one), it would be easier to >> read if this part said "options or the revision range". > > Why does it have to be a range? It might well be a list of revisions, Study "Specifying Ranges" section of gitrevisions and come back, perhaps? A list of revisions is merely a way to specify "revision range" that are reachable from any of these revisions listed. "log A B" won't stop by just showing A and B (that would be "show A B"), but will list those that are reachable from A B, so in the context of discussing the arguments given to "git log" command, "A B" is still "revision range".