In its current form, the note talks about separating options from "branch names" and "refnames" in the same sentence. This is entirely inaccurate, as <revision range> need not be a set of branch names or ref names. Rewrite it to use the word "revision range", to be consistent with the SYNOPSIS. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-log.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 9576695..a976534 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ produced by --stat etc. Simplification" below for details and other simplification modes. + -To prevent confusion with options and branch names, paths may need to -be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from options or refnames. +Paths may need to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from +options or the revision range, when confusion arises. include::rev-list-options.txt[] -- 1.8.2.1.501.gd2949c7 -- 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