Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] range-diff(docs): explain how to specify commit ranges

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2021, 22:42 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpn1f4fq8.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2102042257130.54@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> As I said before, this _is_ a symmetric range that has commits
>> reachable from rev1 but not from rev2 on the left hand side, and
>> commits reachable from rev2 but not from rev1 on the right hand
>> side, not just something else that resembles a symmetric range.
>
> If we were talking about one commit range instead of two, I would agree
> with you.

It is one symmetric commit range A...B that has two sides, i.e. B..A on the left side and A..B on the right side.

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