On Fri, Apr 9, 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Well, technically ".." means two different things > > - for "set operations" (ie "git log" and friends) it's the "relative > complement" of two sets (or "'reachable from A' \ 'reachable from B'"). > > - for "edge operations" (ie "git diff" and friends) it's just two > end-points (aka "range"). A diff doesn't work on sets, it only works on > the two endpoints. OK. > Most SCM's really talk about "ranges". Once you think in those terms, > complex history doesn't work. Git very fundamentally is much about set > theory, and "ranges" is a bad word to use. I see how ranges are not powerful enough for complex history. It is just that for me (and maybe for some others), the ".." sign has a strong association with "range". Thank you very much for the explanation, -- aghiles -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html