From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:26:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vtxn0wf4j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 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, so I'm tempted to stick with the word "revisions". As I wrote in the previous email, I think "revision" can be referenced by any one of the syntaxes specified in revisions.txt (this includes a "committish range").