Re: [PATCH v5 01/12] doc: use 'symmetric difference' consistently

From: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 26, 2016, 11:33 UTC
Message-ID: <eca8d854-9483-ea30-c5a8-71a35c3ca7bd@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160811215035.4108-2-philipoakley@iee.org>

W dniu 11.08.2016 o 23:50, Philip Oakley pisze:

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> diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> index 4f009d4..6dc0bb0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ excluded from the output.
>  
>  --left-only::
>  --right-only::
> -	List only commits on the respective side of a symmetric range,
> +	List only commits on the respective side of a symmetric difference,
>  	i.e. only those which would be marked `<` resp. `>` by
>  	`--left-right`.
>  +
> @@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ ifdef::git-rev-list[]
>  endif::git-rev-list[]
>  
>  --left-right::
> -	Mark which side of a symmetric diff a commit is reachable from.
> +	Mark which side of a symmetric difference a commit is reachable from.
>  	Commits from the left side are prefixed with `<` and those from
>  	the right with `>`.  If combined with `--boundary`, those
>  	commits are prefixed with `-`.

That's very nice that two^W three related options, namely --left-only, --right-only and --left-right now use the same notation.

I guess that "symmetric range" was to mean "symmetric difference range".

Best,

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Jakub Narębski