Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > I would say the most technically accurate > description of what 'git log' takes is a "committish range" (basically > a "revision range" that resolves to commits). What is a revision range that doesn't resolve to commits? Am I wrong in thinking revision is nothing more than a synonym for commit? When gitrevisions(7) says "A revision parameter <rev> typically, but not necessarily, names a commit object", I suspect it is residue from 3a45f625 trying to apologize for the extended SHA1 syntax parser being called "git rev-parse" instead of "git object-name-parse". -- 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