[PATCH v4 8/8] doc: revisions - clarify reachability examples

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 For the r1..r2 case, the exclusion of r1, rather than inclusion of r2,
 would be the unexpected case in natural language for a simple linear
 development, i.e. start..end excludes start.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/revisions.txt | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index d3b7cee..14622cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ Commit Exclusions
 '{caret}<rev>' (caret) Notation::
  To exclude commits reachable from a commit, a prefix '{caret}'
  notation is used.  E.g. '{caret}r1 r2' means commits reachable
- from 'r2' but exclude the ones reachable from 'r1'.
+ from 'r2' but exclude the ones reachable from 'r1' (i.e. 'r1' and
+ its ancestors).
 
 Dotted Range Notations
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -293,12 +294,12 @@ Revision Range Summary
 ----------------------
 
 '<rev>'::
-	Include commits that are reachable from (i.e. ancestors of)
-	<rev>.
+	Include commits that are reachable from <rev> (i.e. <rev> and its
+	ancestors).
 
 '{caret}<rev>'::
-	Exclude commits that are reachable from (i.e. ancestors of)
-	<rev>.
+	Exclude commits that are reachable from <rev> (i.e. <rev> and its
+	ancestors).
 
 '<rev1>..<rev2>'::
 	Include commits that are reachable from <rev2> but exclude
-- 
2.9.0.windows.1

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