Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Jun 21 2016, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I find that the first sentence of the description is fuzzy
>> ("Determine whether" would imply that you would get "Yes/No" but
>> what we want is "here are the commits that do not have counterpart
>> in 2fix"),...
>
> This works, thanks! I don't quite understand why though. I started by
> saying that I want to know which commits in master are have been cherry
> picked after 3start was branched to 2fix, so <limit>..<head> must be
> 3start..2fix, which only leaves "master" as <upstream>. What's wrong
> with that thought?
The only thing that is wrong in that is it does not match what
happens, but that is not the fault of the "thought"; as I said, I
think the description is fuzzy and has room for improvement to avoid
being read in such a way that leads to a wrong conclusion.
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