Re: [PATCH 4/5] git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 21, 2013, 07:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0kiT7vggXgqGs2iiMooiw7TyJEgr2=Yy06S7H1NKiWJ3g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8v4cwd6g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 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".

... and what about 'git log HEAD^!'? Is that a range? What about 'git log HEAD:README' (hint: it doesn't error out)? I would argue that "A B" is not inherently a revision range, but rather two revisions. It's upto different commands to interpret it differently.

Then again, in the context of log, we just want ranges (also considering we had <since>..<until> for this long, and I didn't even object to it). So I'll go with your "revision range", but I won't claim that it's technically accurate.