If one thinks of a revision as the set of commits which can be reached
from the rev, and of ^rev as the complement, then multiple arguments to
git rev-list can be neither understood as the intersection nor the union
of the individual sets.
But set language is the natural as well as logical language in which to
phrase this. So, add a paragraph which explains multiple arguments using
set language.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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While one could explain this also by describing the revision walker,
I think that and/or/union/intersection should be clearer for the average
user.
We may even want to add a paragraph which explains how one gets "A intersected B",
which is impossible to do with rev-list.
Documentation/git-rev-list.txt | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 847cc7d..40ca276 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ command:
means "list all the commits which are included in 'foo' or 'bar', but
not in 'baz'".
+So, the resulting set of commits is the union of 'foo' and 'bar',
+intersected with the complement of baz. The order of arguments is
+irrelevant: first, the union of all positive refs (those without
+'{caret}') is taken, then the result is intersected with all negative
+refs (i.e. with the complement of the union of all refs which appear
+with a preceding '{caret}').
+
A special notation "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" can be used as a
short-hand for "{caret}'<commit1>' '<commit2>'". For example, either of
the following may be used interchangeably:
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