Re: [PATCH v5 05/12] doc: revisions: extra clarification of <rev>^! notation effects

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From: "Marc Branchaud" <marcnarc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On 2016-08-12 03:07 AM, Philip Oakley wrote:
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx>
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new
Cc: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx>
https://public-inbox.org/git/578E4F4A.2020708%40gmail.com/
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 Documentation/revisions.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 3da0083..0b5044d 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ for naming a set that is formed by a commit and its parent commits.

 The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all parents of 'r1'.

-'r1{caret}!' includes commit 'r1' but excludes all of its parents.
+'r1{caret}!' notation includes commit 'r1' but excludes all of its parents.

This sentence should start with "The".

Accepted. I'd simply split the the previous text, so the nice run-on effect it initially had has been lost.


+This is the single commit 'r1', if standalone.

That reads awkwardly to me.  Perhaps

       By itself, this notation denotes the single commit 'r1'.

Like it. I'd toyed wth quite a few variants. It's jsut a case of finding the nicest one;-)


?

M.

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Philip
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