Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:25:59AM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote: > >> Is there a common name for the A..B range format (two dots) that would >> complement the A...B (three dots) symmetric range format's name? >> >> I was looking at the --left-right distinctions and noticed that the trail >> back to the symmetric range description was rather thin (it's buried within >> gitrevisions:Specifying Ranges, and even then its called a symmetric >> difference. > > I would just call it a range, or possibly a set difference. But I don't > think we have any established naming beyond that. Yup, I think "range" is the commonly used word in discussions here. When inventing A...B as a new thing in addition to A..B, we called the former "symmetric difference", and what is implied by that is the latter is "asymmetric difference"; we do not say that unless we are contrasting between the two, though. -- 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