Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] doc: revisions - name the Left and Right sides

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From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes:

The terms Left and Right side originate from the symmetric
difference. Name them there.
---

Sign-off?

Oops - will fix.

 Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 19314e3..79f6d03 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ A similar notation 'r1\...r2' is called symmetric difference
 of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as
 'r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)'.
 It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of
-'r1' or 'r2' but not from both.
+'r1' (Left side) or 'r2' (Right side) but not from both.

I think it is a good idea to call them explicitly left and right,
but I do not think they need to be capitalized here or on the title
of the patch.

OK - can fix.


In these two shorthands, you can omit one end and let it default to HEAD.
 For example, 'origin..' is a shorthand for 'origin..HEAD' and asks "What

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Philip
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