From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:46:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> For the record, 'git rev-parse master:README..HEAD@{3}~2' works just
> fine.  I don't know whether you want to consider it "sensible" or not,
> but the current revisions.txt is consistent with this.

rev-list errors out though:

  error: Object 15bfea is a blob, not a commit
  fatal: Invalid revision range master:README..HEAD@{3}~2

Hence my suggestion to change the meaning of what a valid "revision
range" is (using rev-list as the guideline) , and be done with it.