From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:46:45 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] doc: give headings for the two and three dot notations Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20160720211007.5520-5-philipoakley@iee.org> Philip Oakley writes: > +Special '{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. As these are not all that "special", how about retitling this section as: 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 > +---------------------- > > '':: > Include commits that are reachable from (i.e. ancestors of)