From: Jakub Narębski Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:33:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/12] doc: use 'symmetric difference' consistently Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20160811215035.4108-2-philipoakley@iee.org> W dniu 11.08.2016 o 23:50, Philip Oakley pisze: > 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, -- Jakub Narębski