Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] doc: give headings for the two and three dot notations

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Jul 22, 2016, 22:46 UTC

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<20160720211007.5520-5-philipoakley@iee.org>

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

> +Special '<rev>{caret}' Shorthand Notations
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +Two other shorthands exist, particularly useful for merge commits, is
> +for naming a set that is formed by a commit and its parent commits.

	Other Shorthand Notations
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> -To summarize:
> +The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all parents of 'r1'.
> +
> +'r1{caret}!' includes commit 'r1' but excludes all of its parents.
> +
> +Revision Range Summary
> +----------------------
>  
>  '<rev>'::
>  	Include commits that are reachable from (i.e. ancestors of)