On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 05:09:26PM +0200, Rene Scharfe wrote:
> +Another special notation is <commit1>...<commit2> which is useful for
> +merges. The resulting set of commits is the symmetric difference
> +between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent:
What's the logic behind naming the operator "..."?
Seems like asking for trouble to have two visually similar operators (".." and
"...") with different meanings, and "..." seems like kind of an arbitrary
choice anyway.
A symmetric difference is basically equivalent to an xor--would a carat ("^")
work? Or could we just stick a word there instead of using some tricky
notation?
--b.
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