Re: Git Community Book

From: Christos Τrochalakis <yatiohi@ideopolis.gr>
Date: Sep 6, 2008, 18:26 UTC
Message-ID: <f7b87f7c0809061126y17f6b601iaeb9a3661c914391@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <d411cc4a0809051208k2a15c4a7te09a6979929e52f7@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hey all,
>
> I just wanted to let those of you who are interested know that I've
> been making a lot of progress on the Git Community Book
> (http://book.git-scm.com)
> ...

Hello Scott!

Nice book, I just started reading it and I have a recommendation to make, at "Chapter 4: Git Treeishes" you write

--------- http://book.git-scm.com/4_git_treeishes.html Range

Finally, you can specify a range of commits with the range spec. This will give you all the commits between 7b593b5 and 51bea1 (where 51bea1 is most recent), excluding 7b593b5 but including 51bea1:

7b593b5..51bea1

This will include every commit since 7b593b:

7b593b.. ---------

This in not quite correct. "commits between A and B" cannot really apply here. I believe that "commits reachable from B and not from A" is more precise. Actually you are already using the "reachability" explanation at the start of "Chapter 3: Basic usage".

This issue is also described at the rev-parse man page.

Apart from that, you could also include "a...b" syntax for completeness.

-christos